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Leonardo de Moura

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Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist who created the Lean proof assistant and co-created the Z3 Theorem Prover while he worked at Microsoft Research. He now works at AWS and is Chief Architect of the Lean Focused Research Organization. His honors include the 2007 CADE Skolem Award for the paper Efficient E-Matching for SMT Solvers, the 2021 Computer Aided Verification Award for his contributions to Z3, the 2025 CADE Skolem Award for the paper describing the Lean theorem prover, and the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for his work on Lean.

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    Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist
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    Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist, creator of the Lean proof assistant and co-creator of the Z3 Theorem Prover during his time at Microsoft Research.
  • In Field: Formal Methods, Lead paragraph
    Leonardo de Moura is a Brazilian computer scientist, creator of the Lean proof assistant and co-creator of the Z3 Theorem Prover during his time at Microsoft Research.
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