Jean-Éric Pin


Jean-Éric Pin is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to the algebraic automata theory and semigroup theory. He is a CNRS research director.

Biography

Pin earned his undergraduate degree from ENS Cachan in 1976, and his doctorate from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1981. Since 1988 he is a CNRS research director at Paris Diderot University. In 1992–2006 he was a professor at École Polytechnique.
Pin is a member of Academia Europaea and an EATCS fellow.
In 2018, Pin became the first recipient of Salomaa Prize.