Dr. Doris L. Carver - Program Officer, Division of Graduate Education NSF- Biographical Sketch


Doris Carver is an IPA at the National Science Foundation where she is a Program Officer in the Division of Graduate Education working with the Graduate Research Fellowship Program. She also works with NSF’s Core Techniques and Technologies for Advancing Big Data Science and Engineering (BIGDATA) program. Carver is a Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. She previously served in numerous administrative positions at Louisiana State University, including Senior Associate Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development, Interim Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development, and Interim Dean of the Graduate School. She also has served as the Associate Commissioner of Sponsored Research and Development and as Louisiana NSF EPSCoR Director for the Louisiana Board of Regents.

Carver’s research area is software engineering. Her research includes the application of formal methodologies to the reengineering of systems, to process improvement for software requirements, and to the testing of hard-to-detect timing errors in distributed systems. She has published over 80 technical papers and has received funding from NSF, NASA, as well as private sources.

Carver previously served as Chair of the IEEE Fellow Committee and as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Computer. She has also served as President of the IEEE Computer Society, as a member of the IEEE Board of Directors, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Computing Research Association.

Carver is both an IEEE Fellow and AAAS Fellow.

She received her BA in mathematics from Carson Newman College, her MS in mathematics from the University of Tennessee, and her PhD in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.