Greg Lavender
Associate Chair for Academics
Computer Science Department
University of Texas-Austin

Dr. Greg Lavender is the Associate Chair for Academics in the CS department at UT-Austin, a position he has held since June 2004. He has been an adjunct faculty member in the CS department since 1994 while working for various technology R&D organizations. He has 23 years experience in Internet protocols and software R&D. Previously, he was a Senior Director of Software Engineering and division-level CTO within the software business unit of Sun Microsystems.  From 1991-1994, Dr. Lavender was a research scientist at the MCC research consortium in Austin, Texas, where he conducted R&D on agent-based distributed computing systems and co-developed a concurrent object- oriented actor language called Rosette. Since 1994, he has co-founded and served as Chief Scientist for two startup companies focused on Internet technologies. He was VP of Technology for Innosoft International, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in March 2000. Dr. Lavender received the 2001-2002 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at Virginia Tech and has served on the Advisory Board of the Department of Computer Sciences at Virginia Tech since 2002.