Solon P. Pissis

  Senior Lecturer in Computer Science

  Department of Informatics

  King's College London

I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in the Department of Informatics at King's College London and a member of the Algorithms & Data Analysis group.

In January 2019, I will be leaving my current position at King's to join CWI in Amsterdam.

Education

• 2015 - 2016: Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education, King's College London, UK.
• 2008 - 2012: Ph.D in Computing, King's College London, UK.
• 2007 - 2008: M.Sc in High-Performance Computing, University of Edinburgh, UK.
• 2003 - 2007: Diploma in Informatics & Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece.

Current Research

• My research area within computer science is algorithms and data structures.
• Research topics I am interested in include algorithms and data structures on sequences and trees for pattern matching, indexing, comparison, and finding regularities.
• Applications thereof I am interested in include bioinformatics, text mining, data compression, information retrieval, and natural language processing.

Research Activities

• I will be PC co-chair (with Nadia Pisanti) of the 30th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2019) to be held in wonderful Pisa. I will also be on the PC of the 30th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA 2019) and on the PC of the 10th International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Big Data (BIOKDD 2019).
• I was on the PC of WABI 2018, WALCOM 2018, IWOCA 2018, BIOKDD 2018, SEA 2017 (co-chair), IWOCA 2017, SPIRE 2017, CPM 2016, IWOCA 2016, SPIRE 2015, IWOCA 2015, BIOKDD 2014, IWOCA 2014, BIOKDD 2013, IWOCA 2013, and BIOKDD 2012.
• I organised SEA 2017, SPIRE 2015, and LSD & LAW 2014.

Latest Research Outputs

2018
[5]	T. Kociumaka, R. Kundu, M. Mohamed, S. P. Pissis, "Longest Unbordered Factor in Quasilinear Time", in 29th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2018), W. Hsu, D. Lee, C. Liao, Eds., Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl–Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, pp. 70:1–70:13. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[4]	L. A. K. Ayad, S. P. Pissis, D. Polychronopoulos, "CNEFinder: finding conserved non-coding elements in genomes", Bioinformatics, vol. 34, no. 17, 2018, pp. i743-i747. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]
[3]	L. A. K. Ayad, C. Barton, P. Charalampopoulos, C. S. Iliopoulos, S. P. Pissis, "Longest Common Prefixes with k-Errors and Applications", in SPIRE, Springer, 2018, pp. 27–41. [bibtex] [doi]
[2]	M. Alzamel, P. Charalampopoulos, C. S. Iliopoulos, T. Kociumaka, S. P. Pissis, J. Radoszewski, J. Straszynski, "Efficient Computation of Sequence Mappability", in SPIRE, Springer, 2018, pp. 12–26. [bibtex] [doi]
[1]	P. Charalampopoulos, M. Crochemore, G. Fici, R. Mercaş, S. P. Pissis, "Alignment-free sequence comparison using absent words", Information and Computation, vol. 262, 2018, pp. 57–68. [bibtex] [pdf] [doi]