Brendan McKay (mathematician)

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Brendan McKay

Brendan Damien McKay (born 26 October 1951 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian computer scientist and mathematician. He is currently an Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU). He has published extensively in combinatorics.

McKay received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Melbourne in 1980, and was appointed Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University, Nashville in the same year (1980–1983).[1] His thesis, Topics in Computational Graph Theory, was written under the direction of Derek Holton.[2] He was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in 1990.[1] He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1997,[1] and appointed Professor of Computer Science at the ANU in 2000.[3]

  1. ^ a b c 'Biography,'
  2. ^ Brendan McKay at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ 'McKay, Brendan Damien (1951– ),' in Encyclopedia of Australian Science.