Ladan Tahvildari

Ladan Tahvildari is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She founded the Software Technologies Applied Research (STAR) Group at the University of Waterloo in 2004. Since then, Professor Tahvildari has worked on decision-making approaches for self-adaptive software systems including adaptive security, analyzing architectures to manage cloud applications, and scalable similarity search over big data.

Her research interests range from engineering highly scalable automated solutions to real world applications in areas such as software security and adaptive software systems.