Randal E. Bryant

12.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
150 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Randal E. Bryant is a scholar working on Computational Theory and Mathematics, Hardware and Architecture and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Randal E. Bryant has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics, 80 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 59 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Randal E. Bryant's work include Formal Methods in Verification (81 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (40 papers) and VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (35 papers). Randal E. Bryant is often cited by papers focused on Formal Methods in Verification (81 papers), Embedded Systems Design Techniques (40 papers) and VLSI and Analog Circuit Testing (35 papers). Randal E. Bryant collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Randal E. Bryant's co-authors include Richard Rudell, Karl S. Brace, Miroslav N. Velev, Yirng-An Chen, Sanjit A. Seshia, Derek L. Beatty, Carl-Johan H. Seger, Somesh Jha, Dawn Song and Mihai Christodorescu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the IEEE, ACM Computing Surveys and Artificial Intelligence.

In The Last Decade

Randal E. Bryant

132 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

Symbolic Boolean manipulation with ordered binary-decisio... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1992 1990 2005 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Symbolic Boolean manipulation with ordered binary-decision diagrams
    1992 1.1k citations Randal E. Bryant profile →
  2. Efficient implementation of a BDD package
    1990 742 citations Karl S. Brace, Randal E. Bryant et al. profile →
  3. Semantics-aware malware detection
    2005 470 citations Sanjit A. Seshia, Randal E. Bryant et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Randal E. Bryant United States 33 3.6k 3.1k 2.0k 1.7k 1.7k 150 6.4k
Bryant United States 5 3.6k 1.0× 2.5k 0.8× 1.9k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 6 5.7k
Sharad Malik United States 52 3.1k 0.9× 8.1k 2.6× 4.7k 2.4× 2.3k 1.4× 1.3k 0.8× 291 12.1k
Kenneth L. McMillan United States 29 4.5k 1.3× 2.0k 0.7× 858 0.4× 1.9k 1.1× 2.5k 1.5× 63 5.8k
E. M. Clarke United States 33 8.7k 2.4× 2.6k 0.8× 970 0.5× 5.1k 3.0× 4.9k 3.0× 79 11.5k
Edmund M. Clarke United States 28 5.4k 1.5× 1.4k 0.5× 450 0.2× 3.3k 1.9× 3.4k 2.0× 112 7.6k
Ravi Sethi United States 26 2.0k 0.6× 3.0k 1.0× 601 0.3× 3.8k 2.3× 1.8k 1.1× 88 9.8k
Rolf Drechsler Germany 43 5.2k 1.4× 3.7k 1.2× 4.5k 2.3× 3.8k 2.2× 1.7k 1.0× 907 9.5k
Barry K. Rosen United States 22 945 0.3× 2.3k 0.7× 924 0.5× 1.6k 0.9× 945 0.6× 59 3.7k
Lintao Zhang United States 25 1.8k 0.5× 852 0.3× 551 0.3× 1.9k 1.1× 1.0k 0.6× 55 4.0k
Orna Grümberg Israel 22 5.1k 1.4× 1.1k 0.4× 349 0.2× 3.3k 2.0× 3.2k 1.9× 73 7.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bryant, Randal E., et al.. (2011). Learning conditional abstractions. 2011. 116–124. 6 indexed citations
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Seshia, Sanjit A. & Randal E. Bryant. (2005). Adaptive eager boolean encoding for arithmetic reasoning in verification. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 15 indexed citations
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Jensen, Rune Møller, Manuela Veloso, & Randal E. Bryant. (2004). Fault tolerant planning: toward probabilistic uncertainty models in symbolic non-deterministic planning. IT University Of Copenhagen (IT University of Copenhagen). 335–344. 24 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E. & David R. O’Hallaron. (2003). Computer systems : a programmer's perspective beta version. Prentice Hall eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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Goel, Amit Kumar & Randal E. Bryant. (2003). Set Manipulation with Boolean Functional Vectors for Symbolic Reachability Analysis. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 10816–10821. 2 indexed citations
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Velev, Miroslav N. & Randal E. Bryant. (2003). Effective use of Boolean satisfiability procedures in the formal verification of superscalar and VLIW microprocessors. Journal of Symbolic Computation. 35(2). 73–106. 73 indexed citations
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Jensen, Rune Møller, Randal E. Bryant, & Manuela Veloso. (2002). SetA*: an efficient BDD-based heuristic search algorithm. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 668–673. 32 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E., et al.. (2001). A symbolic simulation-based methodology for generating black-box timing models of custom macrocells. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 501–506. 1 indexed citations
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Velev, Miroslav N. & Randal E. Bryant. (2001). Effective use of Boolean satisfiability procedures in the formal verification of superscalar and VLIW microprocessors. Design Automation Conference. 226–231. 22 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E., et al.. (1999). Symbolic functional and timing verification of transistor-level circuits. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 526–530. 7 indexed citations
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Chen, Yirng-An & Randal E. Bryant. (1997). PHDD: an efficient graph representation for floating point circuit verification. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 2–7. 28 indexed citations
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Chen, Yirng-An & Randal E. Bryant. (1996). ACV: an arithmetic circuit verifier. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 361–365. 28 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E.. (1995). Verification of Arithmetic Circuits with Binary Moment Diagrams. Proceedings - ACM IEEE Design Automation Conference. 66 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E.. (1995). Binary decision diagrams and beyond: enabling technologies for formal verification. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 236–243. 120 indexed citations
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Jain, Alok & Randal E. Bryant. (1993). Inverter minimization in multi-level logic networks. International Conference on Computer Aided Design. 462–465. 12 indexed citations
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Beatty, Derek L., Randal E. Bryant, & Carl-Johan H. Seger. (1990). Synchronous circuit verification by symbolic simulation: an illustration. 98–112. 21 indexed citations
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Beatty, Derek L. & Randal E. Bryant. (1988). Fast incremental circuit analysis using extracted hierarchy. Design Automation Conference. 495–500. 6 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E., et al.. (1987). Simulator for MOS Circuits. Design Automation Conference. 9–16. 4 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E.. (1985). Symbolic Manipulation of Boolean Functions Using a Graphical Representation. Design Automation Conference. 688–694. 58 indexed citations
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Bryant, Randal E.. (1981). MOSSIM: A Switch-Level Simulator for MOS LSI. Design Automation Conference. 426–430. 48 indexed citations

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