Sherri Weitl-Harms is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science, Design, & Journalism Department at Creighton University. In addition to several years of industry experience, she has been in academia for more than twenty-five years and served as chair of the Cyber Systems department at the University of Nebraska at Kearney for 12 years. Her research areas include machine learning/artificial intelligence, natural language processing, sentiment analysis, CS education, gamification, user experiences, health informatics, and spatial-temporal data mining. She is a highly productive researcher (producing 50+ peer-review publications, in journals such as the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Journal of Cybersecurity Education, Research and Practice, Communications of the ACM, and Journal of Climate, and peer-reviewed conferences such as ACM and IEEE conferences, and the Hawaii International Conference for System Sciences. She has contributed to projects totaling more than $12M in external funding, with research funded by NSF, USDA, Google, and state agencies. As an educator, she has taught more than 20 different courses and has mentored hundreds of student publications and presentations.  Dr. Weitl-Harms received the 1997 Governor’s Award for Teaching Excellence for Lincoln University in Missouri.  Dr. Weitl-Harms is heavily involved in undergraduate research, serves as a Division Representative for Math/CS (MCS) on the Council for Undergraduate Research (CUR), and received the 2025 Advanced-Career Faculty Mentor Award for the MCS Division of CUR. She is actively committed to service learning, has received grants for implementing social media plans for small businesses & non-profits through service learning, mentored student projects that have aided hundreds of local, regional, and national organizations and is the creator of the innovative Human Centered Design Iterative Service Learning (HCDISL) Framework for delivering sustainable computing artifacts through service learning. She is an editor, program committee member and reviewer for several professional conferences and journals, a Program Coordinator for the Nebraska and Southwest Iowa NCWIT Aspirations Alliance, a Senior IEEE member, and a member of several honor and professional organizations. She received her PhD from the University of Missouri.