M. Brian Blake is vice provost for academic aff airs and dean of the Graduate School at the University of Miami, and the primary research advocate on the Coral Gables campus. A computer scientist and soft ware engineer, Blake has held faculty and administrative posts at the University of Notre Dame and Georgetown University. His research interests include investigating soft ware engineering approaches for Web-based systems. Blake earned his Ph.D. in information and soft ware engineering from George Mason University in 2000.
