Maxime Crochemore
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Biography
Crochemore earned his doctorate (PhD) in 1978 and his Doctorat d'état (DSc) in 1983 from the University of Rouen. He was a professor at Paris 13 University in 1985–1989, and moved to a professorship at Paris Diderot University in 1989. In 2002–2007, Crochemore was a senior research fellow at King's College London, where he is a professor since 2007. Since 2007, he is also a professor emeritus at the University of Marne-la-Vallée.
Crochemore holds an honorary doctorate (2014) from the University of Helsinki. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2009 as a special issue of Theoretical Computer Science.
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Research contributions
Crochemore published over 100 journal papers on string algorithms. He in particular introduced new algorithms for pattern matching, string indexing and text compression. His work received a significant number of academic citations.
Crochemore has co-authored three well-known scientific monographs on the design of algorithms for string processing: "Text Algorithms" (1994; jointly with Wojciech Rytter), "Jewels of Stringology" (2002, jointly with Wojciech Rytter), and "Algorithms on Strings" (2007, jointly with Christophe Hancart and Thierry Lecroq).