Jeff Offutt is a professor of Software Engineering at the University at Albany, SUNY.

[3] He is the author of Introduction to Software Testing with Paul Ammann published by Cambridge University Press.

He also helped create the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability and was the first chair of its steering committee.

In 2019, Offutt received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities.

[10][11] Dr. Offutt received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and data processing in 1982 (double major) from Morehead State University, and master's (1985) and PhD (1988) in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.