Biography
Solon Pissis read Computer Science at the University of Athens (2003-2007) before completing his M.Sc in High-Performance Computing at the University of Edinburgh (2007-2008). He obtained his Ph.D in Computer Science from King's College London (2008-2012). He was a Research Associate at the University of Florida and a Visiting Scientist at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (2012-2013). He was appointed Lecturer (2013) and then Senior Lecturer (2018) at King's College London. In 2019, he joined CWI, where he is Senior Researcher in the Networks & Optimization group leading the Algorithms and Data Structures for Sequence Analysis team. Since 2020, he is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Research
His area of research within computer science is algorithms and data structures. Research topics he is interested in include algorithms and data structures on strings and graphs for pattern matching, indexing, comparison, and finding regularities. Applications thereof he is interested in include data mining, bioinformatics, data compression, and information retrieval. For more details, see the team's webpage.