Luc Devroye
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Luc P. Devroye is a Belgian computer scientist and mathematician and a James McGill Professor in the School of Computer Science of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Devroye wrote around 300 mathematical articles, mostly on probabilistic analysis of algorithms, on the asymptotic analysis of combinatorial structures (like trees and graphs), and on random number generation (more precisely, on efficient simulation of different probability distributions).{{Cite web|url=https://zbmath.org/authors/?q=ai:devroye.luc-p|title=Luc P. J. A. Devroye - Author Profile - zbMATH Open|website=zbmath.org}}
He also contributed to typography (creating several fonts).{{Cite web|url=https://luc.devroye.org/|title=Luc Devroye's Home Page|website=luc.devroye.org}}
Education and career
He studied at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and subsequently at Osaka University and in 1976 received his PhD from University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Terry Wagner, for his thesis « Nonparametric Discrimination and Density Estimation ».{{Mathgenealogy|73385|Luc P. J. A. Devroye}}.
Devroye then joined the McGill University in 1977.
Awards
Devroye won an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship (1987), a Humboldt Research Award (2004), the Killam Prize (2005) and the Statistical Society of Canada gold medal (2008).{{Cite web |url=http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/Members/patrick/school_news.2008-07-14.0541388353 |title=Luc Devroye wins Statistical Society of Canada gold medal — |access-date=2008-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803090845/http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/Members/patrick/school_news.2008-07-14.0541388353 |archive-date=2008-08-03 |url-status=dead }} He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) in 2002,{{Cite web |url=http://www.uclouvain.be/en-322600.html |title=UCL - Honoris Causa |access-date=2012-03-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901025652/http://www.uclouvain.be/en-322600.html |archive-date=2011-09-01 |url-status=dead }} and he received an honorary doctorate from University of Antwerp on March 29, 2012.http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*NEWS&n=103924{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}
In 2018, he was awarded the Flajolet Lecture Prize, and, in 2019, he got the {{interlanguage link|Laplace Prize|fr}} of the French Statistical Society.
See also
References
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External links
- [http://luc.devroye.org Luc Devroye's Homepage]
- [http://www.planet-typography.com/news/typo/devroye.html The Mathematician Typographer]
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