Bruce Donald

Bruce R. Donald
Bruce Donald in his laboratory at Duke University (2023).
Born1958
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale
MIT
AwardsPresidential Young Investigator Award
Guggenheim Fellowship
Fellow of the ACM
Fellow of the IEEE
Fellow of the AAAS
Scientific career
FieldsComputational Biology
Computer Science
Computational Chemistry
Molecular Design
Robotics
Nanotechnology
InstitutionsHarvard University
Cornell University
Stanford University
Interval Research
Dartmouth College
Duke University
ThesisError Detection and Recovery for Robot Motion Planning with Uncertainty (1987)
Doctoral advisorTomás Lozano-Pérez

Bruce Randall Donald (born 1958) is an American computer scientist and computational biologist. He is the James B. Duke Professor of Computer Science and Biochemistry at Duke University. He has made numerous contributions to several fields in Computer Science such as robotics, Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), Geometric & physical algorithms and computational geometry, as well as in areas of Structural Molecular Biology & Biochemistry such as Protein design, Protein Structure Determination and Computational Chemistry.