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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

More material:

• Short bio
• Curriculum Vitae
• Family data

Current Assignments

• I am not anymore the director of the Center for Web Research; that was until August 2008.
• Research Coordinator (DCC).
• Member of the Department Council (DCC).
• Member of the Department Evaluation Committee (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
• Millennium Nucleus Center for Web Research
• 2nd Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms
• Software (most is free)
• Book Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings
• Pizza&Chili Site of compressed text indexes and their testbeds
• 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 ACM Journal of Experimental Algorithmics and Information Retrieval.
• PC Member 2008-: ICDE 2008, WWW 2008, DCC 2008 to 2010, IWOCA 2008, SPIRE 2008, 2009, and 2010, Chilean Computing Meeting 2008, SISAP 2009, SCCC 2009, Fun with Algorithms (FUN) 2010, CPM 2010.
• Invited speaker 2008-: AMW 2010 (Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mayo 17-20, 2010), CIAA 2009 (Syndey, Australia, July 14-17), SISAP 2009 (Prague, Czech Republic, August 29-30), PSC 2009 (Prague, Czech Republic, August 31-September 2, 2009), 3rd Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms 2008 (Melbourne, Australia, November 13).
• Past conference chairing: 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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