Position: Professor, University of Central Florida
Gary Leavens is a professor in the department of Computer Science at UCF. After joining UCF in August 2007, he became associate chair in 2008, and was department chair from 2010-2021. He led a successful faculty cluster proposal in cyber security and privacy. His research is in formal methods.
Previously Dr. Leavens was a professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, where he started in 1989, after receiving his doctorate from MIT. Before graduate studies at MIT, he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Denver Colorado as a member of technical staff.