Heather Miller is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon,
where she is affiliated with the Institute for Software Research. Prior to joining the faculty at CMU,
Professor Miller not only worked as a research scientist at EPFL, but
also co-founded and served as the Executive Director for the Scala Center, a
nonprofit focused on software development, education, and research surrounding the open source Scala
programming language. She continues to work on and around Scala, while pursuing research on various
flavors of distributed and concurrent computation. Some of her projects underway include programming
models and type systems to facilitate the design of new, functional distributed systems.