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Kenneth L. McMillan publication distribution in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Computer Science in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kenneth L. McMillan sits on this spectrum.

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32 publications 991+

This scientist: 156 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 991 publications or more.

Kenneth L. McMillan D-index placement in Computer Science in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Computer Science scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kenneth L. McMillan sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 63 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 131 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Symbolic Model Checking

Overview

Kenneth L. McMillan is a researcher affiliated with Microsoft in the United States. Their academic work primarily spans the field of computer science, with a focused contribution to artificial intelligence, computational theory and mathematics, software, computer networks and communications, and safety, risk, reliability, and quality.

Their research topics address several core areas including formal methods in verification, logic, programming, and type systems, software testing and debugging techniques, safety systems engineering in autonomy, distributed systems and fault tolerance, advanced software engineering methodologies, and embedded systems design techniques.

Recent publications by Kenneth L. McMillan include:

  • Induction duality: primal-dual search for invariants (2022), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • Invariant Checking for SMT-Based Systems with Quantifiers (2024), ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
  • Counterexample Driven Quantifier Instantiations with Applications to Distributed Protocols (2023), Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • NeuroBack: Improving CDCL SAT Solving using Graph Neural Networks (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Bayesian Interpolants as Explanations for Neural Inferences (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)

Kenneth L. McMillan has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including Oded Padon, Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Lenore D. Zuck, Sharon Shoham, and Mooly Sagiv.

Their work has been published in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages
  • ACM Transactions on Computational Logic
  • Formal Methods in System Design
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

McMillan is also the author of a book published by Springer Science+Business Media titled Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, released in 2022. This work has been cited in the context of formal verification methods.

The researcher was awarded the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award in 1998 for contributions related to symbolic model checking.

Best Publications

  • Symbolic Model Checking

    Edmund M. Clarke;Kenneth L. McMillan;Sérgio Vale Aguiar Campos;Vassili Hartonas-Garmhausen

  • Symbolic model checking: 10/sup 20/ states and beyond

    J.R. Burch;E.M. Clarke;K.L. McMillan;D.L. Dill

  • Symbolic model checking: an approach to the state explosion problem

    Kenneth Lauchlin McMillan

  • Interpolation and SAT-Based Model Checking

    Kenneth L. McMillan

  • Lazy abstraction with interpolants

    Kenneth L. Mcmillan

  • Symbolic model checking for sequential circuit verification

    J.R. Burch;E.M. Clarke;D.E. Long;K.L. McMillan

  • Sequential circuit verification using symbolic model checking

    J. R. Burch;E. M. Clarke;K. L. McMillan;David L. Dill

  • Compositional model checking

    E.M. Clarke;D.E. Long;K.L. McMillan

  • Abstractions from proofs

    Thomas A. Henzinger;Ranjit Jhala;Rupak Majumdar;Kenneth L. McMillan

  • Using Unfoldings to Avoid the State Explosion Problem in the Verification of Asynchronous Circuits

    Kenneth L. McMillan

  • Theory of latency-insensitive design

    L.P. Carloni;K.L. McMillan;A.L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

  • Applying SAT methods in unbounded symbolic model checking

    Ken L. Mcmillan

  • Abstractions from proofs

    Unknown

  • Spectral Transforms for Large Boolean Functions with Applications to Technology Mapping

    E. M. Clarke;K. L. McMillan;X Zhao;M. Fujita

  • A technique of state space search based on unfolding

    K. L. McMillan

  • The SMV System

    Kenneth L. McMillan

  • Efficient Generation of Counterexamples and Witnesses in Symbolic Model Checking

    E. M. Clarke;O. Grumberg;K. L. McMillan;X. Zhao

  • Automatic abstraction without counterexamples

    Kenneth L. McMillan;Nina Amla

  • Horn Clause Solvers for Program Verification

    Nikolaj Bjørner;Arie Gurfinkel;Kenneth L. McMillan;Andrey Rybalchenko

  • An interpolating theorem prover

    K. L. McMillan

  • Verification of the Futurebus+ cache coherence protocol

    Edmund M. Clarke;Orna Grumberg;Hiromi Hiraishi;Somesh Jha

  • Approximation and decomposition of binary decision diagrams

    Kavita Ravi;Kenneth L. McMillan;Thomas R. Shiple;Fabio Somenzi

  • Symbolic model checking: 10/sup 20/ states and beyond

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Edmund M. Clarke
Edmund M. Clarke Carnegie Mellon University
Andrey Rybalchenko
Andrey Rybalchenko Microsoft (United States)
Lenore D. Zuck
Lenore D. Zuck University of Illinois at Chicago
Mooly Sagiv
Mooly Sagiv Tel Aviv University
Nikolaj Bjørner
Nikolaj Bjørner Microsoft (United States)
Isil Dillig
Isil Dillig The University of Texas at Austin
Ranjit Jhala
Ranjit Jhala University of California, San Diego
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli University of California, Berkeley
David L. Dill
David L. Dill Stanford University
Doron Peled
Doron Peled Bar-Ilan University

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