Ladan Tahvildari

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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]

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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. 1 2 3 "Ladan Tahvildari, PEng", Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty and staff, University of Waterloo, retrieved 2025-08-17
  2. Tahvildari, Ladan (2003), Quality-driven object-oriented re-engineering framework (PDF) (Ph.D. thesis), University of Waterloo, archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-05-01
  3. "Research team", Software Technologies Applied Research Laboratory, University of Waterloo, retrieved 2025-08-17
  4. "Ladan Tahvildari" (PDF), IEEE Women in Engineering: Profiles of Progress, IEEE Canadian Review, pp. 65–66, Spring 2015, retrieved 2025-08-17
  5. "Professor elected to lead software engineering body", Engineering news, University of Waterloo, 7 July 2020, retrieved 2025-08-17
  6. 1 2 Fifty-four new Fellows elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (PDF), Canadian Academy of Engineering, 6 May 2024, retrieved 2025-08-17
  7. "Ladan Tahvildari, 2025–2027 Board of Governors", Profiles, IEEE Computer Society, retrieved 2025-08-17
  8. "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, retrieved 2025-08-17