Nadia Polikarpova is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego. She completed her PhD in 2014 at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) under the supervision of Bertrand Meyer. After that, she spent almost three years as a postdoc at MIT CSAIL, working with Armando Solar-Lezama. Her research interests span the areas of programming languages and formal methods; in particular, she is interested in building practical tools and techniques that make it easier for programmers to construct secure and reliable software.