Congratulations are in order for electrical and computer engineering professor, Dr. Ladan Tahvildari. Tahvildari was recently elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS) for a three year term beginning 1 January 2025.
The IEEE Computer Society is engaging computer engineers, scientists, academia, and industry professionals from all areas of computing. IEEE CS sets the standard for the education and engagement that fuels continued global technological advancement.
Dr. Tahvildari leads the Software Technologies Applied Research (STAR) Group at the University of Waterloo. Her research is in the areas of decision-making approaches for self-adaptive software systems including adaptive security, analyzing architectures to manage cloud applications, and scalable similarity search over big data.
Dr. Tahvildari is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics (IEEE). She has been an elected Member-at-Large (2016-2018) for the IEEE Technical Council of Software Engineering (TCSE), and the 2018 TCSE Awards Chair. Dr. Tahvildari is the current IEEE TCSE chair (since 2020). She is currently a Member-at-Large of the IEEE Technical Activities Committee (TAC). She served for more than 10 years as Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group, Kitchener-Waterloo Section. Professor Tahvildari is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.