Taya Sherstiukova is an undergraduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, pursuing a degree in computer science with minors in business and engineering leadership. In addition to her studies, she is developing Excel2SBOL, a converter tool from Excel spreadsheets to SBOL (Synthetic Biology Open Language), and working as a Teaching Assistant for a Financial Analytics course. She is also the professional director of Women in Computing at CU. Outside of academics, Taya is interested in skiing, F1, yoga, and traveling.