Randy Bryant has been a computer science professor for 27 years: 3 years at Caltech and 24 at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to that he went to University of Michigan in applied math for undergraduate and MIT for graduate school. He has been Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon since 2004.

Although Randy has never been connected to Cornell, he has four family members who have: two grandparents, his mother, and his daughter, Claire, who is currently a senior in sociology.