Maxime Crochemore

Maxime Crochemore is a French computer scientist known for his numerous contributions to algorithms on strings. He is currently a professor at King's College London.

Biography

Crochemore earned his doctorate in 1978 and his Doctorat d'état 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 from the University of Helsinki. A festschrift in his honour was published in 2009 as a special issue of Theoretical [Computer Science |Theoretical Computer Science].

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", "Jewels of Stringology", and "Algorithms on Strings".