Jean-Éric Pin
Alma materENS Cachan
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Known forAlgebraic automata theory
Scientific career
FieldsFormal language theory
Semigroup theory
Combinatorics
Doctoral advisorJean-François Perrot

Jean-Éric Pin is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to the algebraic automata theory and semigroup theory. He is a CNRS research director.

Biography

Pin earned his undergraduate degree from ENS Cachan in 1976 and his doctorate (Doctorat d'état) from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1981. Since 1988 he has been a CNRS research director at Paris Diderot University. In the years 1992–2006 he was a professor at École Polytechnique.

Pin is a member of the Academia Europaea (2011)[1] and an EATCS fellow (2014).[2] In 2018, Pin became the first recipient of the Salomaa Prize in Automata Theory, Formal Languages, and Related Topics.[3]

References

  1. "Academy of Europe: Pin Jean-Eric". Ae-info.org. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  2. "EATCS Fellows class of 2014 named". Eatcs.org. Retrieved 2017-04-02.
  3. KarhumäKi, Juhani; Perrin, Dominique; Volkov, Mikhail (6 October 2018). "The Salomaa Prize 2018 was given to Dr. Jean-Éric Pin". Bulletin of Eatcs. 3 (126). Retrieved 2020-01-01.


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