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Luc Devroye

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

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. Advocating for truly universal healthcare, and free education for all. Will never retire.

Research

Scribbles ⦿ More scribbles ⦿ And more ⦿ ArXiv ⦿ Books
Analysis of Algorithms Home Page ⦿ AofA 2012 ⦿ Analysis of Algorithms 2022 Easychair ⦿ Workshop and conference schedule ⦿ Math institutes: CRM ⦿ ISM
NSERC ⦿ NSERC Login ⦿ CCV (Canadian Common CV) ⦿ EU Funding and Tenders Portal ⦿ FRNTQ ⦿ ORCID ID ⦿ Journal of Mathematical Statistics and Learning login ⦿ Mathematical Statistics and Learning ⦿ TheoretiCS dashboard ⦿ Research Gate ⦿ Scholar GPS ⦿ Google Scholar ⦿ Aminer ⦿ Overleaf ⦿ IMS login ⦿ MathJobs login
Hallucinators, liars, thieves and sycophants: Google Gemini ⦿ ChatGPT/OpenAI ⦿ Claude/Anthropic ⦿ Deepseek ⦿
Playing good cop: Gowers against Elsevier ⦿ Custodians online ⦿ No blind refereeing ⦿ Ten reasons why conference papers should be abolished (by Donald Geman in 2007) ⦿ Ten commandments ⦿ Thomas Cormen's rules of writing [PDF] ⦿ A model for research: Weizmann Institute / Daniel Zajfman [PDF] ⦿ ✞ Philippe Flajolet: 1948-2011

Feeding

Feed lots and manure collection:

Undergraduate roughage on algorithms and data structures: COMP 252. I fertilized this yard in the winter of 2026, and will do so again in January 2027. myCourses.

Undergraduate roughage on data structures and algorithms: COMP 251. I am not scheduled to collect manure from this yard in the 2026-2027 academic year or after that.

Graduate oats on probabilistic analysis of algorithms: COMP 690. These juicy bits are available every year. I just taught it in the Winter 2026 term. This course will be taught again by me during the 2026-2027 academic year. The term remains to be confirmed by my stablemaster. What to do if you want to take 690 as a U3 student.

k My current racehorses: Caelan Atamanchuk, Gavin McCracken
lMy current ponies: Nikola Katov, Shan Gao.
c Recently retired racehorses: Tommy Reddad (Google, Albuquerque, NM), Xing Shi Cai (Duke Kunshan University, China), Claude Gravel (Toronto Metropolitan University), Nicolas Fraiman (University of North Carolina), Omar Fawzi (Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon), Jamie King (Block, Seattle, WA), Nicolas Broutin (Sorbonne University, Paris), Perouz Taslakian (Service Now), Ebrahim Malalla (KFUPM, Saudi Arabia), Henning Sulzbach (Consileon, Germany), Abbas Mehrabian (Google Deep Mind, Montreal).
z Recently retired ponies: William Zahary Henderson (Canada), Jiechen Zhang (EPFL), Massimo Vicenzo (Waterloo), Marcel Goh (McGill), Anna Brandenberger (MIT), Rosie Zhao (Harvard), Jad Hamdan (Oxford).
y Future broncos: 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.
USRA, SURA: I will not take on any USRA or SURA students in the foreseeable future.
n NII (internship program at National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo)
g The Aaron Swartz Library (open to all McGill herbivores)
u libgen, Anna's Archive
e PDF Drive