Olivier Danvy

Olivier Danvy is a French computer scientist specializing in programming languages, partial evaluation, and continuations. He is a professor at the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore.

Olivier Danvy
Danvy in 2005
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Université Paris VI – Pierre et Marie Curie[1]
Known for	Partial evaluation, continuations
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	BRICS, Aarhus University, Yale-NUS College
Doctoral advisor	Bernard Robinet & Emmanuel Saint-James[1]
Website

Danvy received his PhD degree from the Université Paris VI in 1986.^[1] He is notable for the number of scientific papers which acknowledge his help. Writing in Nature, editor Declan Butler reports on an analysis of acknowledgments on nearly one third of a million scientific papers and reports that Danvy is "the most thanked person in computer science".^[2]

Danvy himself is quoted as being "stunned to find my name at the top of the list", ascribing his position to a "series of coincidences": he is multidisciplinary, is well travelled, is part of an international PhD programme, is a networker, and belongs to a university department with a long tradition of having many international visitors.^[2]