Scholar
W F Smyth
Google Scholar ID: 1cBibC4AAAAJ
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, McMaster University
Citations & Impact
Citations
969
H-index
15
i10-index
24
Publications
20
Co-authors
58
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Contact
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Published five papers in 2024, including a major survey on string covering
- h-index reached 34
- A special issue of Theoretical Computer Science on Stringology was published in 2016 to honor his 80th birthday
- Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews since 2009
- Fellow of the British Computer Society (1983)
- Longstanding member of professional organizations including ACM, AMS, and SIAM
Research Experience
- Steering Committee Member of the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA) from 2006 to 2020; co-founder since 1987
- Founder of StringMasters workshop (2007)
- Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Institute of Combinatorics & Its Applications
- Continues serving on the Boards of Directors of both IWOCA and Prague Stringology Conference (PSC)
- Supervises PhD and MSc students researching string algorithms and machine learning applications in computational biology
