Leader, Infrastructure
Telecommunications
Phone: 979-862-4072
Email: galmes@tamu.edu
Webpage: http://academy.tamu.edu/Guy_T_Almes.html
Guy T. Almes is the Institute’s infrastructure leader. Almes is a 1972 graduate of Rice University, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and engineering in 1972 and his master’s in electrical engineering in the same year. He received his doctorate in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980.
Since 2006, Almes has been director of the Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies at Texas A&M. Prior to this position, he was program officer in the Office of Cyberinfrastructure at the National Science Foundation. From 1997 to 2006 he was chief engineer for the Internet2 initiative. He has also served as an assistant professor of computer science at Rice University and has held other responsible positions in computer networking and programming. Almes has produced numerous publications on subjects in computer networking, programming, and applications of networking in higher education.