Proudly advised Ph.D. students including Gianni Franceschini (U. di Roma 'La Sapienza'), Ankur Gupta (Butler U., advisor Jeff Vitter), Iwona Bialynicka-Birula (Microsoft), Giovanni Battaglia (ION Trading, Dimoco), Alessio Orlandi (Google), Mauriana Pesaresi (1983-2008, RIP), Rui Andre' Ferreira (Microsoft, Facebook, Spotify), Giuseppe Ottaviano (Facebook), Alessio Conte (NII Tokyo, U. Pisa), Shima Moghtasedi (Milan), Luca Versari (Google), Giulia Punzi (current).
Research Experience
Member of program committees for various international conferences such as SWAT10, IWOCA10, ESA10, FOCS10, SPIRE11 (co-chair), WADS11, IWOCA11, IWOCA12, CIKM12, ESA13, ICTCS13, IWOCA13, ICABD14, MFCS14, IWOCA14, PODS14, ISAAC14, SPIRE14, SODA15, CPM15, IWOCA15, CPM16 (co-chair), IWOCA16, SPIRE16, FUN16, LATIN16, ICALP17, CPM18, WWW19, IWOCA19 (co-chair), CPM2020, iABC2020, SWAT2020, WWW2020, ALGO2020 (organization chair). Member of the International Olympiad in Informatics.
Education
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Background
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. Research interests include design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, dynamic and external memory algorithms, experimental algorithm engineering, patterns in strings, matrices, trees, and graphs, text indexing, and compressed data structures.
Miscellany
Enjoys listening to music and owns over 800 CDs and lots of digital music.