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.

Jean-Éric Pin
Pin in 2004
Alma materENS Cachan
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Known forAlgebraic automata theory
Scientific career
FieldsFormal language theory
Semigroup theory
Combinatorics
Doctoral advisorJean-François Perrot

Biography

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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

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  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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