Scholar
Paolo Ferragina
Google Scholar ID: 3EILU3MAAAAJ
Professor of Algorithms, Dept. Computer Science, University of Pisa
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,157
H-index
28
i10-index
58
Publications
20
Co-authors
38
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2023 ESA Test of Time Award for the paper 'Engineering a Lightweight Suffix Array Construction Algorithm' (ESA 2002, Algorithmica 2004)
- 2023 CIKM Test of Time Award for the TAGME paper and software
- 2022 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory to Practice Award
- 2022 Google Cloud Research Innovator
- 2019 'Cherub' (Cherubino) Award from the University of Pisa
- Google Research Awards in 2010, 2012, and 2016
- 5-year Yahoo! Research Award (2007–2010)
- 1997 Philip Morris Award on Science and Technology
- 1997 EATCS Doctoral Dissertation Thesis Award (Italian Chapter)
- Authored 'Pearls of Algorithm Engineering' (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and 'Computational Thinking: First Algorithms, Then Code' (Springer, 2018)
- Editorial Board Member of the Journal on Graph Algorithms and Applications (JGAA) since 2011
- Area Editor for the 'Encyclopedia of Algorithms' (Springer, 2016) and 'Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies' (Springer, 2018)
Research Experience
- Collaborated with Senseable City Lab (MIT), Pinello Lab (Harvard & MassGeneral Hospital), European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Google (Zurich), Bloomberg (London), ST Microelectronics, Tiscali (Istella's search engine), Yahoo! Research (Barcelona), ENEL Foundation, CERVED Group, Bassilichi, and Spazio Dati
- Member of the Board of the PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa (since 2002)
- Member of the Board of the Italian National PhD program in Artificial Intelligence for Society (since 2013/14)
- Member of the Scientific Committee of the CNR Department on 'Engineering, ICT, and Technologies for Energy and Mobility' (since 2023)
- Co-Director of the J.T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research on 'Computational Complex and Social Systems' (since 2016)
Miscellany
- Served as Vice-Rector on ICT at the University of Pisa (2019–2022)
- President of the joint PhD in Computer Science (Pisa, Florence, Siena) (2017–2020)
- Vice-Rector on Applied Research and Innovation (2010–2016)
- President of the University IT Center (Cloud and HPC competence center for Dell and Intel) (2009–2016)
- Vice-Chairman of the Department of Computer Science (2006–2010)
- Advisory Board Member of the Master in 'Big Data Analytics & Artificial Intelligence for Society' (University of Pisa & CNR, supported by Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Scuola Normale Superiore)
