Dennis Gannon is a computer scientist, researcher and writer exploring the application of cloud computing in science. From 2008 until he retired in 2014 he was with Microsoft Research and MSR Connections as the Director of Cloud Research Strategy. In this role he helped provide access to cloud computing resources to over 300 projects in the research and education community. Gannon is a professor emeritus of Computer Science at Indiana University and the former sccience director of the Indiana Pervasive Technology Labs. His interests include large-scale cyber infrastructure, programming systems and tools, distributed and parallel computing, data analysis and machine learning. He has published more than 200 refereed articles and three co-edited books.

He enjoys living in the North West and great movies and books.