Robyn Lutz is a professor of computer science at Iowa State University. She was also on the technical staff of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, from 1983 to 2012, most recently in the Software System Engineering group. Her research interests include safety-critical software systems, product lines, and the specification and verification of molecular programmed nanosystems. She is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. She was program chair of the International Requirements Engineering Conference in 2014 and general chair in 2006. She has served two terms as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and on the editorial boards of the journals Software: Testing, Verification and Reliability, Software and System Modeling, and Requirements Engineering.