Gail E. Kaiser is a Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Programming Systems Laboratory (PSL) in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University. Prof. Kaiser’s research area is software engineering, currently focusing primarily on static and dynamic program analysis techniques towards improving developer productivity, software reliability and computer security. She is also interested in collaborative work technologies and “gameful” approaches to teaching computer science. Her lab has been funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA, ONR, NASA, NYS Science & Technology Foundation, and numerous companies. Prof. Kaiser served on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing for many years, was a founding associate editor of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, chaired the program committee for the third ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering, and served a term as Vice Chair of ACM SIGPLAN. Prof. Kaiser received her PhD from CMU and her ScB from MIT. See her CV at http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~kaiser/vita.html.