Robyn Lutz

{{Short description|American computer scientist}}

{{Use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=April 2023}}

{{Use list-defined references|date=April 2023}}

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.{{r|profile|cv}} 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.{{r|cv}}

Returning to graduate study, she earned a master's degree in computer science in 1990 from Iowa State University.{{r|profile|cv}} 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.{{r|cv}}

Recognition

Lutz was named a Distinguished Scientist in the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.{{r|acm}} In 2021, she received the lifetime service award from the IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference.{{r|ire}} She was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2022, "for contributions to software requirements for safety-critical systems".{{r|if}}

Personal life

Lutz is married to Jack Lutz, a professor of mathematics and computer science at Iowa State University; their son Neil Lutz{{r|jackack}} is also a computer scientist and a visiting assistant professor of computer science at Swarthmore College.{{r|neilcv}} They have published together on algorithmic game theory in DNA computing.{{r|l3r}}

References

{{reflist|refs=

{{citation|url=https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/lutz_3224581|title=Robyn Lutz|work=Award recipients|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|access-date=2023-04-13}}

{{citation|url=https://robynlutz.com/vita/short_vita.pdf|title=Robyn R. Lutz – Short Vita|access-date=2023-04-13}}

{{citation|url=https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2022-ieee-fellows-class.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124083848/https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/2022-ieee-fellows-class.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 24, 2021|title=2022 Newly Elevated Fellows|publisher=IEEE|access-date=2023-04-13}}

{{citation|url=https://www.cs.iastate.edu/robyn-lutz-wins-lifetime-service-award-ieee-international-requirements-engineering-conference|title=Robyn Lutz wins Lifetime Service Award at IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference|date=September 23, 2021|publisher=Iowa State University Department of Computer Science|access-date=2023-04-13}}

{{citation|contribution=Acknowledgement|pages=iii–iv|title=Resource-Bounded Category and Measure in Exponential Complexity Classes|first=Jack H.|last=Lutz|type=Doctoral dissertation|year=1987|publisher=California Institute of Technology|url=https://thesis.library.caltech.edu/6854/3/Lutz_jh_1987.pdf}}

{{citation

| last1 = Lutz | first1 = Jack H.

| last2 = Lutz | first2 = Neil

| last3 = Lutz | first3 = Robyn R.

| last4 = Riley | first4 = Matthew R.

| contribution = Robustness and games against nature in molecular programming

| date = May 2019

| doi = 10.1109/icse-nier.2019.00025

| publisher = IEEE

| title = 2019 IEEE/ACM 41st International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER)| arxiv = 1902.06171

}}

{{citation|url=https://neillutz.com/LutzCV-2021.pdf|title=Neil Lutz curriculum vitae|year=2021|access-date=2023-04-13}}

{{citation|url=https://www.cs.iastate.edu/rlutz|title=Robyn Lutz|work=Tenure/Tenure Track Faculty|publisher=Iowa State University Department of Computer Science|access-date=2023-04-13}}

}}