Paola Inverardi (born 1957) is an Italian computer scientist specializing in software engineering.
She studied computer science at the University of Pisa, earning a laurea in 1981.
She moved to her present position as a professor at the University of L'Aquila in 1994.
[1] In 2011, Mälardalen University College in Sweden gave Inverardi an honorary doctorate,[2] and in 2017 the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo gave her another honorary doctorate.
[2] She was named a 2021 ACM Fellow "for contributions to software architecture".