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Luc Devroye

(Inglorious basterd)
School of Computer Science
McGill University
3480 University Street
Montreal, Canada H3A 2A7
Tel: 1+(514) 398-3738
Fax: 1+(514) 398-3883
Messages: 1+(514) 398-7071
Email: lucdevroye@gmail.com
Suite: McConnell Eng. Bldg #300N

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3425 Red path
Montreal, Canada H3G 2G2
Tel: 1+(514) 849-1564

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Biography. Born in Tienen, Belgium, too long ago. Grew up in Tienen and went to the University of Leuven (Belgium). Got married to Bea. Studied for two years at Osaka University (Japan). Obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas in 1976 under the supervision of Terry Wagner, with a thesis entitled Nonparametric Discrimination and Density Estimation. Joined the School of Computer Science at McGill University in 1977 as a young snotnose, and found academic freedom and cybercover from conservative forces in 2006 at the Computational Geometry Lab of Carleton University, Ottawa. Recognized by his peers as a slum dog in 2008 and an inglorious basterd in 2009. Thanks to a wonderful bunch of students and colleagues all over the world, still hanging in there. Will never retire. Read this piece by Julius Grey or this quote by Walter Crowley to understand Luc.

Research

Teaching

My courses:

My graduate course on data structures: CS308-610A (January-April 2010, not offered by me in 2010-2011 academic year)

My undergraduate course on probabilistic analysis of algorithms: CS308-490B (offered in 2006-2007 but not in 2007-2011)

My undergraduate course on data structures: CS308-252B (Next time taught by me from January-April 2011)

My graduate course on probabilistic analysis of algorithms: CS308-690A (Next offering: September 2010)

ConCoCO (Concordia Computational Combinatorial Optimization Laboratory).
My current Ph.D. students: Erin McLeish, Jamie King, Nicolas Fraiman (Uruguay), Omar Fawzi (France).
My current M.Sc. students: Linda Farczadi, Putra Manggala (Singapore).
Recently graduated Ph.D. students: Nicolas Broutin, Perouz Taslakian (co-supervision), Ebrahim Malalla.
Luc's Library (open to all McGill students)

McGill University

Private

Montreal

Poem

I used to have a poem here called Ode to Jacques as a protest against France's atomic bomb testing. In view of Chirac's courageous stance in favor of peace and against a senseless war, I have removed that masterpiece. I am proud to be able to replace it by these v i deos of Sarkozy, and a new poem, called Sarkokaka.