Solon P. Pissis

Solon P. Pissis is a Senior Researcher at the Networks and Optimization group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, leading the Algorithms and Data Structures for Sequence Analysis team. He also holds a part-time position as Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. He earned his PhD in Computer Science from King's College London, following M.Sc. in High-Performance Computing (University of Edinburgh) and B.Sc. in Computer Science (University of Athens).

• Research Focus: Algorithms and data structures for strings and graphs, with applications in bioinformatics, data mining, and information retrieval.
• Key Contributions: Development of efficient algorithms for pattern matching, sequence analysis, and elastic-degenerate string processing.

His work bridges theoretical computer science with practical applications in genomic data analysis and big data processing.

Awards:

• Best Paper Award at SPIRE 2022.

Teaching: Teaches graduate-level courses in Algorithms in Sequence Analysis and Fundamentals of Bioinformatics at VU Amsterdam. Supervises PhD students in algorithmic research and bioinformatics.

He leads the Pan-genome Graph Algorithms & Data Integration (PANGAIA) project and actively contributes to the academic community through editorial roles (Algorithmica) and conference organization (e.g., ALGO 2023).