Patrick Cousot (born 3 December 1948) is a French computer scientist, currently Silver Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA.
In 1999 he received the CNRS Silver medal and in 2006 the great prize of the EADS Foundation.
In 2001, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate by Saarland University, Germany.
With Radhia Cousot, he received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award in 2013 and the IEEE Computer Society Harlan D.
Mills award in 2014, âFor the invention of âabstract interpretationâ, development of tool support, and its practical applicationâ.
He received a Humboldt Research Award in 2008 and the 2018 IEEE John von Neumann Medal "for introducing abstract interpretation, a powerful framework for automatically calculating program properties with broad application to verification and optimisation".