Luc Devroye


Luc P. Devroye is a Belgian computer scientist and mathematician and a James McGill Professor in the School of Computer Science of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Since joining the McGill faculty in 1977 he has won an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award, the Killam Prize and the Statistical Society of Canada gold medal. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Louvain in 2002, and he received an honorary doctorate from Universiteit Antwerpen on March 29, 2012.
He studied at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and subsequently at Osaka University and in 1976 received his PhD from University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Terry Wagner. Devroye specializes in the probabilistic analysis of algorithms, random number generation, and type design.