Luc P. Devroye is a
Belgian
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computer scientist and
mathematician
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Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
History
On ...
and a
James McGill
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Professor
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in the
School of Computer Science of
McGill University
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in
Montreal, Quebec
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, Canada.
Devroye specializes in the
probabilistic analysis of algorithms
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,
random number generation
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, and
type design
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.
Education
He studied at
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and subsequently at
Osaka University and in 1976 received his
PhD from
University of Texas at Austin
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under the supervision of
Terry Wagner
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People
Male
* Terry Albritton (1955–2005), A ...
.
Career
Since joining the McGill faculty in 1977 he has won an
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1987), a
Humboldt Research Award
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(2004), the
Killam Prize (2005) and the
Statistical Society of Canada
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Its objectives are
* to make the general public aw ...
gold medal (2008). He received an honorary doctorate from the
University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in 2002, and he received an honorary doctorate from
University of Antwerp
The University of Antwerp ( nl, Universiteit Antwerpen) is a major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp. The official abbreviation is ''UA'', but ''UAntwerpen'' is more recently used. The University of Antwerp has about 20,000 stud ...
on March 29, 2012.
Awards
*
Flajolet Lecture Prize
The Philippe Flajolet Lecture Prize is awarded to for contributions to analytic combinatorics and analysis of algorithms, in the fields of theoretical computer science. This prize is named in memory of Philippe Flajolet.
History
The Flajolet Le ...
, 2018
References
External links
Luc Devroye's Homepage
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Belgian computer scientists
Academic staff of McGill University
Anglophone Quebec people