Gary T. Leavens
# Gary T. Leavens

Gary T. Leavens is an American academic working as a professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida.

## Education

Leavens earned a Bachelor of Science in computer and communication science from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science in computer science from the University of Southern California, and a PhD in philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Career

From 1977 to 1984, Leavens worked on the technical staff at Bell Labs. From 1989 until 2007, he was a professor of computer science at Iowa State University. His scholarship focuses on behavioral interface specification languages (BISLs) such as Larch/Smalltalk, Larch/C++, and JML. Leavens was the program chair for 2009 OOPSLA.

