Byron Cook (computer scientist)

Dr. Byron Cook is an American computer science researcher at University College London.[1] Byron's research interests include program analysis/verification, programming languages, theorem proving, logic, hardware design, and operating systems. Byron's recent work has been focused on the development of automatic tools for

  • Proving properties of biological models,
  • Termination and liveness proving,[2] and
  • Discovering invariants regarding mutable data structures.[3]
Dr. Byron Cook
NationalityUnited States
Occupationcomputer science researcher
Known forTermination analysis

Awards and Prizes

In 2009, Cook won the Roger Needham Award. His public lecture was on "Proving that programs eventually do something good".[4]

Cook was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers in 2019. [5]

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