| Gary Leavens | |
| Education: | University of Michigan (BS) University of Southern California (MS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
| Discipline: | Computer science |
| Workplaces: | Iowa State University University of Central Florida |
| Sub Discipline: | Specification language Information assurance Object-oriented programming Type theory Computer science education |
Gary T. Leavens[1] is an American academic working as a professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida.
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.[2]
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.