Jean-Éric Pin

Jean-Éric Pin
Residence	France
Alma mater	ENS Cachan Pierre and Marie Curie University
Known for	Algebraic automata theory
Scientific career
Fields	Formal language theory Semigroup theory Combinatorics
Doctoral advisor	Jean-François Perrot

Jean-Éric Pin is a French mathematician and theoretical computer scientist known for his contributions to the algebraic automata theory and semigroup theory. He is a CNRS research director.

Pin earned his undergraduate degree from ENS Cachan in 1976, and his doctorate (Doctorat d'état) from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1981. Since 1988 he is a CNRS research director at Paris Diderot University. In 1992–2006 he was a professor at École Polytechnique.

Pin is a member of Academia Europaea (2011) and an EATCS fellow (2014).