Brendan McKay (mathematician)
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| Born | Brendan Damien McKay 26 October 1951 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
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| Fields | Combinatorics |
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| Thesis | Topics in Computational Graph Theory (1980) |
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Brendan Damien McKay (born 26 October 1951) 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.
Born in Melbourne, 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 in Nashville in the same year (1980–1983). His thesis, Topics in Computational Graph Theory, was written under the direction of Derek Holton. He was awarded the Australian Mathematical Society Medal in 1990. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1997, and appointed professor of computer science at the ANU in 2000.