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David Garlan is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, leading research projects focusing on software architecture, self-adaptive systems, formal methods, and cyber-physical systems. He is recognized as one of the founders of the field of software architecture, particularly for his contributions to formal representation and analysis of architectural designs. Garlan co-authored influential books in the discipline, including 'Software Architecture: Perspectives Emerging Discipline' and 'Documenting Software Architecture: Views'. His work has earned him several accolades, including the Stevens Award Citation for pivotal contributions to the understanding of software architecture within the software engineering community and the Outstanding Research Award from ACM SIGSOFT for significant and lasting contributions to software architecture. He has also been named a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM.
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