Biography:Ladan Tahvildari
Ladan Tahvildari is an Iranian and Canadian computer scientist focused on software engineering, a professor in the University of Waterloo Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a visiting scientist at the IBM Toronto Laboratory, and a member of the Canadian Consortium for Software Engineering Research.[1]
Education and career
Tahvildari received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology in 1991. She then went to the University of Waterloo program in electrical and computer engineering, where she received a master's degree in 1998 and completed her Ph.D. in 2003.[1] Her doctoral dissertation, Quality-driven object-oriented re-engineering framework, was supervised by Kostas Kontogiannis.[2]
As a faculty member at Waterloo in 2004, she became the founder of its Software Technologies Applied Research Laboratory,[1] which she continues to lead.[3] She was also a founder of Go ENG Girl, an annual program that encourages female secondary-school students to participate in engineering.[4]
In 2020, she was elected to head the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering for a two-year term, becoming the second Canadian and the first woman to head the council.[5] She was subsequently re-elected for a consecutive term.[6] She is a member of the board of governors of the IEEE Computer Society for a term running from 2025 to 2027.[7]
Recognition
Tahvildari was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2024.[6] She was named as an IBM Champion for 2025.[8]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Ladan Tahvildari, PEng", Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty and staff (University of Waterloo), https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/profile/ltahvild, retrieved 2025-08-17
- ↑ Tahvildari, Ladan (2003), Quality-driven object-oriented re-engineering framework, University of Waterloo, http://swen.uwaterloo.ca:80/~ltahvild/Publications/Ladan-PhDThesis.pdf
- ↑ "Research team", Software Technologies Applied Research Laboratory (University of Waterloo), https://uwaterloo.ca/software-technologies-applied-research-laboratory/research-team, retrieved 2025-08-17
- ↑ "Ladan Tahvildari", IEEE Canadian Review: 65–66, Spring 2015, https://canrev.ieee.ca/fr/cr73/ICR73_Final_Low_Res.pdf, retrieved 2025-08-17
- ↑ "Professor elected to lead software engineering body", Engineering news (University of Waterloo), 7 July 2020, https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/news/professor-elected-lead-software-engineering-body, retrieved 2025-08-17
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Fifty-four new Fellows elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Canadian Academy of Engineering, 6 May 2024, https://www.cae-acg.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-New-Fellows-Media-Release-EN-1.pdf, retrieved 2025-08-17
- ↑ "Ladan Tahvildari, 2025–2027 Board of Governors", Profiles (IEEE Computer Society), https://www.computer.org/profiles/ladan-tahvildari, retrieved 2025-08-17
- ↑ "Electrical and computer engineering professor, Dr. Ladan Tahvildari, named IBM Champion for 2025: a recognition of leadership and contributions to the technology community", Electrical and Computer Engineering news (University of Waterloo), 4 March 2025, https://uwaterloo.ca/electrical-computer-engineering/news/electrical-and-computer-engineering-professor-dr-ladan-0, retrieved 2025-08-17
External links
- Software Technologies and Applied Research (STAR) Lab
- Ladan Tahvildari publications indexed by Google Scholar
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