Kevin Joseph Leach
Beyster 2909 — kjleach@umich.edu
University of Michigan
This Fall 2020, I am teaching:
- EECS 481 — Software Engineering with Westley Weimer.
- EECS 484 — Databases with Barzan Mozafari.
I am Senior Research Fellow in the Computer Science and Engineering Division at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor. Previously, I was a Research Scientist in the Robust Low Power VLSI group at the University of Virginia. I received my PhD in Computer Engineering at the University of Virginia under the guidance of Wes Weimer. My work is in systems security, specifically the debugging transparency problem, though I occasionally work on conversational artificial intelligence, program analysis, medical informatics, and big data applications.
I received my MS in Computer Science at George Mason University in 2013. My advisor was Angelos Stavrou. I received my BS with Distinction in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Virginia in 2011.
For the Summer 2020 semester, I am taught EECS 485 — Web Systems.
For the Spring 2020 semester, I taught EECS 481 — Software Engineering.
For the Winter 2020 semester, I taught EECS 498 — Conversational AI.
For the Fall 2019 semester, I helped teach EECS 498 — Conversational AI.
For the Winter 2019 semester, I taught EECS 370 — Computer Organization.
For the Winter 2018 semester, I taught EECS 483 — Compiler Construction.
Milestones at a Glance
- September 2017 — I accepted a Senior Research Fellow position at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
- December 2016 — I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation.
- April 2016 — I received the Louis T. Rader Graduate Research Award.
- May 2015 — I successfully defended my dissertation proposal.
- August 2014 — I successfully passed my Qualifying Exam.
- January 2014 — I received an $81k grant from MIT Lincoln Laboaratory to support my PhD research.
- May 2013 — I received my MS in Computer Science from George Mason University