Liuba Shrira is a professor of computer science at Brandeis University, whose research interests primarily involve distributed systems.

[1] Shrira is accredited with having coined the phrase "promise" when referring to the completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation and its resulting value for the JavaScript programming language[2] Shrira received her PhD from Technion.

[1] She is affiliated with the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

[3] She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which has recognized her as a Distinguished Scientist in 2009, and the IEEE Computer Society.

[1] Shrira was one of the founding members of the Systers mailing list for women in computing.