Patrick Cousot

Patrick Cousot(Q2385483) is a French computer scientist, who co-invented Abstract Interpretation with Radhia Cousot.

Patrick Cousot is a French computer scientist and mathematician, known for his contributions to the field of abstract interpretation and program analysis.

Abstract interpretation is a mathematical framework for analyzing the semantics of computer programs, which allows for the creation of automated program analysis and verification tools. Cousot and his team developed a general theory of abstract interpretation, which has been applied to the analysis of properties such as safety, security, and resource usage in a wide range of programming languages and systems.

Cousot also developed the Cousot-Cousot fixpoint algorithm, which is a powerful technique for computing the least and greatest solutions of systems of equations and inequalities. This algorithm is widely used in the field of program analysis and verification.

Cousot also made contributions to the field of static program analysis, he and his team developed the first automatic static analyzer for proving the absence of runtime errors and proving the absence of overflow in numerical computations.

Cousot is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. He received several awards such as the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award and the ACM POPL Influential Paper Award.

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