Biography:Robyn Lutz

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Short description: American computer scientist

Robyn R. Lutz is an American computer scientist whose research involves software engineering, including modeling and checking software requirements and software system safety. She is a professor of computer science at Iowa State University.

Education and career

Lutz majored in English at the University of Kansas, graduating with the highest distinction in 1974, earned a master's degree in Spanish there in 1976, and completed a Ph.D. in Spanish in 1980, under the supervision of Raymond Souza.[1][2] Despite this non-technical background, she became a member of the technical staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, associated with the California Institute of Technology, in 1983, and continued to hold an affiliation there until 2012.[2]

Returning to graduate study, she earned a master's degree in computer science in 1990 from Iowa State University.[1][2] She held an affiliate assistant professor title there from 1994 to 2000. In 2000 she became a regular-rank associate professor, and in 2005 she was promoted to full professor.[2]

Recognition

Lutz was named a Distinguished Scientist in the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.[3] In 2021, she received the lifetime service award from the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference.[4] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to software requirements for safety-critical systems".[5]

Personal life

Lutz is married to Jack Lutz, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Iowa State University; their son Neil Lutz[6] is also a computer scientist and a visiting assistant professor of computer science at Swarthmore College.[7] They have published together on algorithmic game theory in DNA computing.[8]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Robyn Lutz", Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty (Iowa State University Department of Computer Science), https://www.cs.iastate.edu/rlutz, retrieved 2023-04-13 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Robyn R. Lutz – Short Vita, https://robynlutz.com/vita/short_vita.pdf, retrieved 2023-04-13 
  3. "Robyn Lutz", Award recipients (Association for Computing Machinery), https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/lutz_3224581, retrieved 2023-04-13 
  4. Robyn Lutz wins Lifetime Service Award at IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Iowa State University Department of Computer Science, September 23, 2021, https://www.cs.iastate.edu/robyn-lutz-wins-lifetime-service-award-ieee-international-requirements-engineering-conference, retrieved 2023-04-13 
  5. 2022 Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2022-ieee-fellows-class.pdf, retrieved 2023-04-13 
  6. Lutz, Jack H. (1987), "Acknowledgement", Resource-Bounded Category and Measure in Exponential Complexity Classes, California Institute of Technology, pp. iii–iv, https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/6854/3/Lutz_jh_1987.pdf 
  7. Neil Lutz curriculum vitae, 2021, https://neillutz.com/LutzCV-2021.pdf, retrieved 2023-04-13 
  8. Lutz, Jack H.; Lutz, Neil; Lutz, Robyn R.; Riley, Matthew R. (May 2019), "Robustness and games against nature in molecular programming", 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER), IEEE, doi:10.1109/icse-nier.2019.00025 

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