Maxime Crochemore

Maxime Crochemore, born in 1947, is a French computer scientist known for his numerous contributions to algorithms on strings. He earned his doctorate in 1978 and his Doctorat d'état in 1983 from the University of Rouen, was a professor at Paris 13 University from 1985 to 1989 and then at Paris Diderot University from 1989, and has been a professor at King's College London since 2007, after serving there as a senior research fellow from 2002 to 2007. He is also professor emeritus at the University of Marne-la-Vallée. He has published over 100 journal papers on string algorithms, introducing new algorithms for pattern matching, string indexing and text compression, and has co-authored three monographs on string processing: Text Algorithms and Jewels of Stringology, both with Wojciech Rytter, and Algorithms on Strings, with Christophe Hancart and Thierry Lecroq. He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki, awarded in 2014.