Paolo Ferragina

I am Professor and Vice-Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, and I'm a teacher at the Scuola Normale Superiore of a course on "Algorithms and Complexity". I'm also the President of the first HPC Competence Center in Europe financed by Acer, hosted by University of Pisa. I was in the Advisory Board of the Consorzio Pisa Ricerche, and scientific coordinator of Signum, a research center of the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. I got my Laurea degree (summa cum laude, 1992) and my PhD (1996) in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, and my Post-doc from the Max-Planck Institut fur Informatik (Saarbrucken, 1997-98). From 1998 to 2000, I've been Assistant Professor at the University of Pisa; and from 2000 to 2007, I've been Associate Professor at the same University. I also spent various periods of research at IBM Research center (Rome), AT&T Shannon Lab (NJ), Yahoo! Research Lab (Barcelona), University of North Texas. My research is mainl