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Kenneth L. McMillan is an American computer scientist working in the area of formal methods, logic, and programming languages. He is a professor in the computer science department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Admiral B.R. Inman Centennial Chair in Computing Theory.




Career


McMillan received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992, under Edmund M. Clarke. He is credited to have invented symbolic model checking during his thesis work, which won him the 1992 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award, the highest doctoral dissertation prize awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He also won the 1998 ACM Paris Kanellakis Award for Theory and Practice jointly with Randal Bryant, Edmund Clarke, and E. Allen Emerson for work on symbolic model checking. McMillan subsequently worked at Bell Labs, Cadence Berkeley Labs, and was a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond before joining the faculty of University of Texas at Austin in 2021.




Research


McMillan pioneered several influential research areas in formal methods. His initial work on symbolic model checking based on binary decision diagrams culminated in the creation of the SMV/nuSMV family of model checkers. He also pioneered techniques based on Craig interpolation in model checking infinite-state systems. He is also known for his work on Constrained Horn Clause (CHC) solving and the IVy distributed system verification tool.




Awards


2014 - POPL Most Influential Paper Award
2010 - LICS Test of Time Award
1998 - CMU Allen Newell Medal
1998 - CAV Award
1998 - ACM Paris Kanellakis Award
1996 - SRC Technical Excellence Award
1992 - ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award




Service


McMillan currently serves on the steering committee of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification (CAV).




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