Dr. Hanan Lutfiyya is a Professor of Computer Science at Western University. She has served as Chair of the Department of Computer Science. She developed a Vector Institute approved collaborative AI program offered jointly with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She served as a co-director. She received the UWO Faculty Scholar Award in 2006. Her expertise includes self-adaptive and self-managing systems, autonomic computing, policies, and clouds. She is recognized for her pioneering work in policy-based management.  

Her research interests include Internet of Things, software engineering, self-adaptive and self-managing systems, autonomic computing, monitoring and diagnostics, mobile systems, policies, and clouds.  Her research group in collaboration with industrial and government partners investigates different aspects of reliable software and systems.  She has developed innovative approaches to self-managing systems based on policy-based approaches.  She is currently the Editor-of-Chief of the IEEE Transactions Network and Systems Management.