Dr. David Dill

Professor

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Biography

David Dill is the Donald E. Knuth Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University, where he focuses on formal verification techniques for system designs, including hardware, software, and computational systems. His research includes asynchronous circuit verification and synthesis, as well as methods for verifying hard real-time systems. Dill has received numerous accolades, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2013. His work has had significant impacts in the fields of logic and verification, earning him multiple awards at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Verification. Since retiring in 2017, he has stopped taking new students but continues to collaborate with researchers both at Stanford and beyond. Dill has contributed to the development of the Reluplex algorithm for verifying real-world deep neural networks and has received recognition for his pioneering contributions to satisfiability modulo theories (SMT).

Research Interests

Courses

CS 499 CS 499P BIOMEDIN 290 CS 390A CS 390B CS 390C BIOMEDIN 299 CS 399 CS 399P CS 199 CS 199P BIOMEDIN 370 CS 390D CS 192 CS 191 CS 191W

Requirements for Stanford University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
TOEFL
Listening
Required:26
Reading
Required:26
Writing
Required:26
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:100
GRE General
Verbal
Required:160
Quantitative
Required:165
Analytical Writing
Required:4.5
Overall
Required:4.5
Prerequisites
Bachelor degree from an accredited institution Strong background in mathematics and programming
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Specialization Notes

The Computer Science department emphasizes research potential. GRE General is currently optional but recommended for some tracks.