Esko Ukkonen
Esko Juhani Ukkonen
is a Finnish theoretical computer scientist
known for his contributions to string algorithms,
and particularly for Ukkonen's algorithm
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.
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.
He holds an honorary doctorate from Aalto University.
