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Kimberly Wasson is a research scientist in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. She holds a Doctorate in Computer Science and a Master's Degree in Slavic Linguistics, both from UVa, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Russian from Syracuse University. Her primary research activity is in software engineering, in the areas of reliability and dependability generally, and particularly in the application of rigorous linguistics to the problem of requirements validity. Additionally, she conducts work in software forensics, investigating the contribution of human cognitive habits and limits to system failures as well as the influence of these habits and limits on how we investigate failure. She also follows developments in cognitive science, computational biology, and the theory of computation. Kimberly is an author of a number of conference papers, has given several invited talks, and has taught or co-taught courses in Computer Science, Linguistics, and Russian. She enjoys running, reading, quilting and travel, often in the company of husband Glenn, daughter Sofia and Ginny the wonder woof.




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