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Gonzalo Navarro

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Presentation

My main areas of interest are

• Design and analysis of algorithms and data structures
• Text databases
• Compressed data structures
• Metric databases

Academic performance:

• Short bio
• Curriculum Vitae
• Google Scholar profile

Current Assignments

• I am not anymore the director of the Center for Web Research; that was until August 2008.
• Member of the High Council of Scientific and Technological Development of Fondecyt Program, Conicyt, Chile.
• Research Coordinator (DCC).
• Member of the Academic Evaluation Committee (Faculty).
• Member of the Department Council (DCC).
• Member of the Appeals Committee (Faculty).
• Member of the Postgraduate Committee (DCC).

Research Activities and Material

• Publications
• Algorithmic Wednesdays Group (in Spanish)
• Millennium Institute for Cell Dynamics and Biotechnology
• SISAP --- International Workshop on Similarity Search and Applications
• Software (most is free)
• Book Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings
• Pizza&Chili Site of compressed text indexes and their testbeds
• Libcds, library of compact data structures in Google Code.
• Area Editor of the Encyclopedia of Algorithms, Springer. Ming-Yang Kao, editor. Area "String Algorithms and Data Structures; Compression of Text and Data".
• Member of the Editorial Board of Information Systems, ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and Information Retrieval.
• PC Co-chair of SISAP 2012.
• Special session chair of DCC 2014, "Compressed Data Structures".
• PC Member 2011-: DCC 2011, SISAP 2011, ICALP 2011 (track A), AMW 2011, LATA 2011, SIGIR 2011, SIGKDD 2011, DCC 2012, ESA 2012 (track B), COCOON 2012, SPIRE 2012, SIGIR 2012, ALENEX 2013, CPM 2013, SPIRE 2013, SISAP 2013, SCCC 2013, STACS 2014.
• Invited speaker 2010-: LATIN 2014 (Montevideo, Uruguay, March 30 - April 4), IWOCA 2012 (Tamil Nadu, India, July 19-21), CPM 2012 and SWAT 2012 (Helsinki, Finland, July 3-6), SPIRE 2010 (Los Cabos, Mexico, October 11-13), AMW 2010 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 17-20),
• Past conference chairing: cochair of SISAP 2012, cochair of SISAP 2008, a track of ENC 2007, cochair of IFIP TCS 2006, cochair of SPIRE 2005, posters cochair of SIGIR 2005.

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