Luc Devroye
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☞ School of Computer Science
McGill University
3480 University Street
Montreal, La-La Land H3A 0E9
☏ +1(514) 398-3738 (broken since January 2020)
♂ lucdevroye@gmail.com
♂ (Note: My institutional emails should not be used)
☭ McConnell Eng. Bldg #300N
(Home)
3425 Redpath
Montreal, Canada H3G 2G2
☎ +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.
Joined the School of Computer Science
at McGill University in 1977 as a young snotnose.
Recognized by his peers as a
slum dog in 2008, an
inglorious basterd (sic) in 2009,
an artist in 2012,
and a parasite in 2019.
Thanks to a wonderful bunch of students and colleagues all
over the world, still hanging in there.
Fighting against income inequality, bureaucracy and (internet) mob justice.
Fighting for truly universal healthcare, and free education for all.
Will never retire.
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Feeding
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Feed lots and manure collection:
♘ My current racehorses:
Erin McLeish,
Caelan Atamanchuk,
Gavin McCracken
♙ My current ponies:
William Henderson.
♕ Retired racehorses:
Tommy Reddad (Canada and USA),
Xing Shi Cai (Sweden and China),
Claude Gravel (Quebec and Japan),
Nicolas Fraiman (USA and Uruguay),
Omar Fawzi (France),
Jamie King (Canada),
Nicolas Broutin (France),
Perouz Taslakian (Canada and Armenia),
Ebrahim Malalla (Bahrein),
Henning Sulzbach (Germany and UK),
Abbas Mehrabian (Iran and Canada).
♕ Retired ponies:
Massimo Vicenzo (Waterloo),
Marcel Goh,
Anna Brandenberger (MIT),
Rosie Zhao (Harvard),
Jad Hamdan (Oxford).
▤Future ponies: McGill's admission system is broken. Please contact me by email if you are interested in working with me and have a strong mathematical and probability background.
▤ NII (internship program at National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo)
▤ The Aaron Swartz Library (open to all McGill herbivores)
▤ libgen
▤ PDF Drive
♘I am the pickup rider for the doctoral rodeo since 2022:
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