Scott DeLoach, PhD, MS

Dr. Scott DeLoach is a Professor and the Head of the Department of Computer Science at Kansas State University. He served in the United States Air Force from 1981 to 2001. During his military service, he earned a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in 1982, followed by an M.S. in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1996, both in Computer Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Dr. DeLoach joined K-State's Department of Computing and Information Sciences faculty in 2001 and was appointed the permanent head of the Department of Computer Science in 2016 after serving as interim head since 2014. He has authored over 20 journal articles and book chapters, 17 technical reports, and 70 refereed conference and workshop papers in the field of computer science. His research primarily focuses on software engineering methods applied to intelligent, complex, adaptive, and autonomous multiagent and distributed systems, with current applications including smart grid power distribution and adaptive network security.