Solon Pissis

Full Name
Dr. S. Pissis
Email
Solon.Pissis@cwi.nl
Phone
+31 20 592 4263
Room
M242
Department(s)
Networks and Optimization
Function(s)
Scientific Staff Member
Homepage
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~solon/
Solon Pissis

Biography

Solon Pissis read Computer Science at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of 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 in the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida and a Visiting Scientist in the Scientific Computing group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (2012-2013). He was appointed Lecturer (2013) and then Senior Lecturer (2018) in Computer Science in the Department of Informatics 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 in the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit.

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.

Publications

All publications

Awards

  • Best Paper Award of SPIRE 2022 (2022)

Professional activities

  • Speaker: Pattern Matching on a Special Type of DAGs. Words and Automata Research Group Seminar, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy, 2022.
  • Speaker: Faster Algorithms for Longest Common Susbtring. Computer Science Seminar Series, University of Bar-Ilan, Ramat Gan, Israel, 2021 (Virtual).
  • Speaker: Bidirectional String Anchors: A New String Sampling Mechanism. Algorithms Group Seminar Series, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 2021 (Virtual).
  • Speaker: On String Sanitization. Lecture series on the subject “The interplay between fundamental computer science and data science”, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany, 2021 (Virtual).
  • Speaker: Pattern Masking for Dictionary Masking. Computer Science Seminar Series, University of Bar-Ilan, Ramat Gan, Israel, 2020 (Virtual).
  • Speaker: Reverse-Safe Data Structures for Text Indexing. Computer Science Seminar Series, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 2019.
  • Speaker: Even Faster Elastic-Degenerate String Matching via Fast Matrix Multiplication. Algorithms Group Seminar Series, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, 2019.
  • Speaker: When linear space is impractical: computing absent words in output-sensitive space. Bonsai Bioinformatics Seminar Series, Université de Lille, Lille, France, 2019.
  • Speaker: Elastic-degenerate strings: a new representation for pattern matching in a collection of similar texts. Computer Science Seminar Series, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, 2019.
  • Speaker: Combinatorial Algorithms for String Sanitization. 28th London Stringology Days & London Algorithmic Workshop, King's College London, London, UK, 2020.
  • Professor: Part-time Associate Professor Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit

Current projects with external funding

  • Pan-genome Graph Algorithms and Data Integration (PANGAIA)

Courses