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Bryan Parno is the Kavčić-Moura Professor in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, jointly appointed in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research is primarily focused on investigating long-term, fundamental improvements in the design and construction of secure systems. As a result, his work combines theory and practice to provide formal, rigorous security guarantees for concrete systems, with an emphasis on creating solid foundations for practical solutions. He has made significant contributions to the field, including awards such as the IEEE Cybersecurity Award for Practice and various accolades for excellence in research, including winning prestigious awards at national conferences such as the USENIX Security Symposium and the International Conference on Computer Aided Verification. Parno and his team are known for enabling the formal verification of software, allowing non-experts to prove the correctness of their code, which has important implications for security and reliability in software engineering.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.