Dominique Perrin


Dominique Pierre Perrin is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to coding theory and to combinatorics on words. He is a professor of the University of Marne-la-Vallée and currently serves as the President of ESIEE Paris.

Biography

Perrin earned his PhD from Paris 7 University in 1975. In his early career, he was a CNRS researcher and taught at the University of Chile. Later, he worked as a professor at the University of Rouen, Paris 7 University, and École Polytechnique. Since 1993, Perrin is a professor at the University of Marne-la-Vallée, and since 2004, he is the President of ESIEE Paris.
Perrin is a member of Academia Europaea since 1989.

Scientific contributions

Perrin has been a member of the Lothaire group of mathematicians that developed the foundations of combinatorics on words. He has co-authored three scientific monographs: "Theory of Codes", "Codes and Automata", and "Infinite Words", as well as the three Lothaire books.
Perrin has published around 50 research articles in formal language theory.