University of Richmond alumnus Greg Morrisett will speak at the school’s commencement ceremonies on May 7. He is currently the Jack and Rilla Neafsey Dean and Vice Provost of Cornell Tech and a faculty member in the computer science department at Cornell University.

As dean, Mr. Morrissett upholds the academic quality and direction of Cornell Tech’s degree programs and research. He develops approaches for working with companies, nonprofits, government agencies, and early-stage investors, as well as overseeing the faculty recruitment and entrepreneurial initiatives of the New York-based campus. His research focuses on using programming language technology to build reliable and high-performing software systems.

Prior to joining Cornell Tech, Mr. Morrisett was dean of computing and information science at Cornell University from 2015 to 2019. He held the Allen B. Cutting Chair in Computer Science at Harvard University from 2004 to 2015, as well as serving as associate dean for computer science and electrical engineering. Before his time at Harvard, he spent eight years on the faculty of Cornell’s computer science department.

In addition to graduating with a bachelor’s degree from UR in 1989, he earned both master’s and doctoral degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Mr. Morrisett will address graduates during the main commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. on May 7 at the Robins Center. Ceremonies for the Richmond School of Law and School of Professional & Continuing Studies will take place on May 6.