Luther A. Tychonievich is a full-time lecturer in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. He earned a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Virginia, M.S. and B.S. degrees in computer science from Brigham Young University, and A.A. and A.S. degrees from Lakeland Community College.

His research has three main thrusts. In computer science education he researches pedagogical practices and course designs that attract more and more diverse students into computing. As part of the Family History Information Standards Organisation (FHISO) and RootsDev (an informal community of developers, designers, database managers, family historians, and genealogists who are working with genealogical tools and data), Luther researches data models for facilitating large-scale cooperative family history research. In computer science education he researches pedagogical practices and course designs that attract more and more diverse students into computing. He is also a theoretician and algorithmist, having developed algorithms and written proofs on several topics within computing.