Professor Maxime Crochemore Algorithm Design Group, Department of Computer Science King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Email: @kcl   Office: King's Building K6.56 Teaching CSMACMB - Algorithms for Computational Molecular Biology CSMTSP - Text Searching and Processing MSc Projects BSc/MSci Projects Research Interests Algorithmics, text processing, text compression, automata theory, computational genomics, combinatorial pattern matching (CPM Proceedings in LNCS) The runs conjecture -- latest results Algorithms on Strings ToC+Chapter1.pdf Jewels of Stringology ToC+Chapter1.pdf Text Algorithms Full-text.pdf Publications with DBLP, CSB, CiteSeer, Scirus, Google Scholar     Whole list at IGM Brief Biography Prof. Maxime Crochemore received his PhD in 1978 and his Doctorat d'état in 1983 at the University of Rouen. He got his first professorship position at the University of Paris-Nord in 1985 where he acted as President of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science for two years. He became professor at the University Paris 7 in 1989 and was involved in the creation of the University of Marne-la-Vallée where he is Professor, emeritus from 2007. He also created the Computer Science research laboratory of this university in 1991 and was the director until 2005. From 2004 to 2006, he was Deputy Scientific Director of the Information and Communication Department of CNRS. Prof. Crochemore was Senior Research Fellow from 2002 to 2007 and is presently Professor at King's College London. He has been the recipient of several French grants on string algorithmics and bio-informatics. He participated in a good number of international projects in algorithmics and supervised more than twenty PhD students.