Esko Juhani Ukkonen (b. 1950)
is a Finnish
theoretical computer scientist
computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory.
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known for his contributions to
string algorithms,
and particularly for
Ukkonen's algorithm
In computer science, Ukkonen's algorithm is a linear-time, online algorithm for constructing suffix trees, proposed by Esko Ukkonen in 1995. The algorithm begins with an implicit suffix tree containing the first character of the string. Then it ste ...
for
suffix tree construction.
He is a professor emeritus of the
University of Helsinki
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.
Biography
Ukkonen earned his PhD from the
University of Helsinki
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in 1978,
where he has been a full professor since 1985.
He was the head of the computer science department at the University of Helsinki
in 1998--1999 and in 2010--2013,
and an Academy professor of the
Academy of Finland in 1999--2004.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Nordic Journal of Computing
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since 1993.
Ukkonen is a First Class Knight of the
Order of the White Rose of Finland
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(2000).
He is a member of
Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
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since 2000,
and a foreign member of
Estonian Academy of Sciences
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.
A festschrift in his honour was published by
Springer
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in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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book series.
He holds an honorary doctorate from
Aalto University
Aalto University ( fi, Aalto-yliopisto; sv, Aalto-universitetet) is a public research university located in Espoo, Finland. It was established in 2010 as a merger of three major Finnish universities: the Helsinki University of Technology, the ...
(2014).
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Finnish computer scientists
Academic personnel of the University of Helsinki
University of Helsinki alumni
Members of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters
People from Savonlinna
Living people
1950 births