Esko Ukkonen

Esko Ukkonen
Born (1950-01-26) January 26, 1950
Savonlinna, Finland
Citizenship Finland
Alma mater University of Helsinki
Known for Ukkonen's algorithm
Scientific career
Fields String algorithms
Institutions University of Helsinki
Doctoral advisor Martti Tienari
Doctoral students Heikki Mannila

Esko Juhani Ukkonen (b. 1950) is a Finnish theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to string algorithms, and particularly for Ukkonen's algorithm[1] for suffix tree construction. He is a professor at the University of Helsinki.

Biography

Ukkonen earned his PhD from the University of Helsinki in 1978, where he has been a full professor since 1985. He was the head of the computer science department at the University of Helsinki in 1998--1999 and in 2010--2013, and an Academy professor of the Academy of Finland in 1999--2004. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Nordic Journal of Computing since 1993.

Ukkonen is a First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (2000). He is a member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters since 2000, and a foreign member of Estonian Academy of Sciences. A festschrift in his honour was published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series.[2] He holds an honorary doctorate from Aalto University (2014).[3]

References

  1. ↑ Ukkonen, E. (1995). "On-line construction of suffix trees". Algorithmica. 14 (3): 249–260. doi:10.1007/BF01206331. ISSN 0178-4617.
  2. ↑ Elomaa, Tapio; Mannila, Heikki; Orponen, Pekka (2010). "Algorithms and Applications, Essays Dedicated to Esko Ukkonen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday". 6060. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12476-1. ISSN 0302-9743.
  3. ↑ http://economics.aalto.fi/en/current/news_archive/2014-10-22-003/
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