Jay Lepreau was an American computer scientist and a research professor at the University of Utah.
He spent his childhood both in Massachusetts and in Central Haiti, where his father was treating patients at the Hospital Albert Schweitzer.
[2] In 1990, Lepreau became the assistant director of the department's Center for Software Science, where his work shifted from engineering to research.
In 1994, he founded the OSDI conference and served as its first program chair; in 1995, he renamed his group as the Flux Operating Systems Project.
[2] In the late 1990s, Lepreau's group started developing the network testbed that would eventually become Emulab.