Luc P. Devroye is a
Belgian computer scientist
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and
mathematician and a
James McGill Professor in the
School of Computer Science of
McGill University in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Devroye specializes in the
probabilistic analysis of algorithms
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,
random number generation, and
type design.
Education
He studied at
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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and subsequently at
Osaka University
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and in 1976 received his
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from
University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of
Terry Wagner.
Career
Since joining the McGill faculty in 1977 he has won an
E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1987), a
Humboldt Research Award (2004), the
Killam Prize
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(2005) and the
Statistical Society of Canada gold medal (2008). He received an honorary doctorate from the
University of Louvain
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(UCLouvain) in 2002, and he received an honorary doctorate from
University of Antwerp on March 29, 2012.
Awards
*
Flajolet Lecture Prize, 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