Dennis Kafura Professor Office: KWII 2218 Email: kafura@cs.vt.edu Phone: (540) 231-5568 Website: http://people.cs.vt.edu/~kafura/ Office Hours: TR: 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. and by appointment

Dennis Kafura received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer  Science from Purdue University in 1974 and 1972, respectively. He  had earlier received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of  San Francisco in 1970. He served on the faculty at Iowa State  University from 1975 to 1981 where he received tenure. He joined the  faculty at Virginia Tech in 1982, serving as  Head of the department  from 1998 to 2008.

His research interests are broadly in systems and software  engineering. He has directed several projects involving object- oriented concurrent programming (ACT++), object-oriented distributed  systems (OOSI, and Symphony), and security in grid computing systems  (PRIMA). He is the author of over 50 refereed journal and conference  publications and the author of two books on object-oriented  programming. He has been awarded 18 research grants exceeding $4.5  million in funding and over $2.5 million in equipment grants and  donations. He is a member of the ACM, the IEEE, and the IEEE  Computer Society.