Dominique Perrin
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Dominique Perrin | |
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| Born | November 5, 1946 |
| Alma mater | Paris Diderot University |
| Known for | combinatorics on words coding theory |
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| Fields | Formal language theory Combinatorics on words |
| Institutions | University of Marne-la-Vallée |
| Doctoral advisor | Marcel-Paul Schützenberger |
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Dominique Pierre Perrin[1] (b. 1946) is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to coding theory and to combinatorics on words. He is a professor of the University of Marne-la-Vallée and currently serves as the President of ESIEE Paris.
Perrin earned his PhD from Paris 7 University in 1975. In his early career, he was a CNRS researcher (1970–1977) and taught at the University of Chile (1972–1973). Later, he worked as a professor at the University of Rouen (1977–1983), Paris 7 University (1983–1993), and École Polytechnique (1982–2002). Since 1993, Perrin is a professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, and since 2004, he is the President of ESIEE Paris.
Perrin is a member of Academia Europaea since 1989.
