Dr. Alla Sheffer began her academic career at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Graduating in 1991, Sheffer earned a Bachelor's of Science, summa cum laude, in Math and Computer Science. After four years of military service in the Israeli Army, where Sheffer "spent four years doing a rather interesting programming job," she returned to the Hebrew University to complete a Master's degree with honours and a PhD in Computer Science. Sheffer's completion of her doctorate in 1999 was then followed by a brief foray to the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign as a researcher, where her studie…
