David Garlan

David Garlan
Alma mater
  • Amherst College (B.A., 1971)
  • University of Oxford (B.A., M.A. (Oxon.), 1973)
  • Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D., 1987)
Known forContributions to Software architecture and self-adaptive systems
Awards
    • ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Research Award (2011)
    • ACM Fellow (2013)
    • IEEE Fellow (2013)
    • Stevens Award and Citation (2005)
    • Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence (2016)
Scientific career
Fields
  • Software architecture
  • Software engineering
Institutions
  • Carnegie Mellon University

David Garlan is a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), noted for his contributions to software architecture. He co-authored two widely used books in the field, Software Architecture: Perspectives on an Emerging Discipline (1996) with Mary Shaw and Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond (2nd ed., 2010/2011).