Randal Bryant, Date of Birth

Randal Bryant

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 27-Oct-1952

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Randal E.
Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware and software.
Bryant has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984.
He currently teaches course in computer systems with Professor David R.
O'Hallaron.
He served as the Dean of the School of Computer Science(SCS) at Carnegie Mellon from 2004 to 2014. Over the years, Dr.
Bryant has received many recognitions for his research on hardware and software verification as well as algorithms and computer architecture.
His 1986 paper on symbolic Boolean manipulation using Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) has the highest citation count of any publication in the Citeseer database of computer science literature.
In 2009 Bryant was awarded the Phil Kaufman Award by the EDA Consortium "for his seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification."