Thomas Colcombet
Thomas Colcombet | |
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Born | March 6, 1975 |
Alma mater | University of Rennes 1 |
Known for | tree walking automata, Liquid War |
Awards | Bronze medal of the CNRS (2010) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theoretical Computer Science Automata theory |
Institutions | Paris Diderot University |
Doctoral advisor | Didier Caucal |
Thomas Colcombet (born March 6, 1975) is a French theoretical computer scientist known for settling major open problems on tree walking automata[1][2] jointly with Mikołaj Bojańczyk. Colcombet is currently a CNRS Research Director at Paris Diderot University.
Biography
Colcombet earned his undergraduate degree from École normale supérieure de Lyon (2000) and his doctorate from University of Rennes 1 (2004). Since 2004, he is a CNRS researcher, and a Research Director since 2016. He received the CNRS Bronze Medal in 2010.
Besides his work on tree walking automata, Colcombet contributed to ω-automata,[3] particularly to state complexity of Büchi automata,[4] and to various topics in logic in computer science.
He was involved in the development of the videogame Liquid War.
References
- ^ Bojańczyk, Mikołaj; Colcombet, Thomas (2006). "Tree-walking automata cannot be determinized". Theoretical Computer Science. 350 (2–3): 164–173. doi:10.1016/j.tcs.2005.10.031. ISSN 0304-3975.
- ^ Bojańczyk, Mikołaj; Colcombet, Thomas (2008). "Tree-Walking Automata Do Not Recognize All Regular Languages". SIAM Journal on Computing. 38 (2): 658–701. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.100.7065. doi:10.1137/050645427. ISSN 0097-5397.
- ^ Colcombet, Thomas; Fijalkow, Nathanaël (2016). "The Bridge Between Regular Cost Functions and Omega-Regular Languages". 43rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming. ICALP 2016. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs). Vol. 55. pp. 126:1–126:13. doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2016.126. ISBN 978-3-95977-013-2.
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: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link) - ^ Colcombet, Thomas; Zdanowski, Konrad (2009). "A Tight Lower Bound for Determinization of Transition Labeled Büchi Automata". Automata, Languages and Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 5556. pp. 151–162. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-02930-1_13. ISBN 978-3-642-02929-5. ISSN 0302-9743.
External links
- Official website
- Thomas Colcombet at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Thomas Colcombet at the Mathematics Genealogy Project