Dr. Svetlana Shasharina graduated from Moscow State University and received her Ph.D. from the General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Shasharina has worked on a number of computational science projects, and has published on the uses of object-oriented programming in scientific computing, distributed computing and the development of intuitive scientific modeling applications and libraries.

As a Senior Research Associate at the University of Colorado, Dr. Shasharina taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. At Tech-X Corporation, Dr. Shasharina is a principal investigator of many projects, combining C/C++, Java and distributed (CORBA, grid) programming and leading accelerator physics projects that include accelerator modeling and differential algebra. Dr. Shasharina has also participated in development of the National Transport Code Collaboration demo code.