Randal E. Bryant is Dean of the Carnegie Mellon University School of
Computer Science.  He has been on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon since
1984, starting as an Assistant Professor and progressing to his
current rank of University Professor of Computer Science.  He also
holds a courtesy appointment in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department.

Dr. Bryant's research focuses on methods for formally verifying
digital hardware, and more recently some forms of software.  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 addition, he
has developed several techniques to verify circuits by symbolic
simulation, with levels of abstraction ranging from transistors to
very high-level representations.

Dr. Bryant has received widespread recognition for his work.  He is a
fellow of the IEEE and the ACM, as well as a member of the National
Academy of Engineering.  His awards include the 2007 IEEE Piore Award,
the 1997 ACM Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (shared with Edmund
M. Clarke, Ken McMillan, and Allen Emerson) for contributing to the
development of symbolic model checking, as well as the 1989 IEEE
W.R.G. Baker Prize for the best paper appearing in any IEEE
publication during the preceding year.

Dr. Bryant teaches courses in computer systems.  Along with David
R. O'Hallaron, he developed a novel approach to teaching about the
hardware, networking, and system software that comprise a system from
the perspective of an advanced programmer, rather than from those of
the system designers.  Their textbook ``Computer Systems: A
Programmer's Perspective'' is now in use at over 110 universities worldwide
and has been translated into Chinese and Russian.

Dr. Bryant received his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the
University of Michigan in 1973, and his PhD from MIT in 1981.  He was
on the faculty at Caltech from 1981 to 1984.