HIIT Fellow wins Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship
HIIT Fellow Nicola Cotumaccio received an MSCA (Marie Skłodowska-Curie) fellowship from the European Union, with an interdisciplinary project (SURE, SUffix trees meet REgular languages) at the intersection of several areas: Algorithms, Data Compression, Automata Theory and Bioinformatics. The main goal of the project is to extend the suffix tree, the most important data structure for string processing, to labeled graphs and automata, and to use this new paradigm for studying regular languages. SURE was ranked first among the 129 proposals submitted to the same EU panel.
Nicola will conduct his research at three institutions: École normale supérieure in Paris, University of Chile in Santiago and Gran Sasso Science Institute in L’Aquila, Italy. In particular, in Santiago he will be hosted by Gonzalo Navarro, a long-term collaborator of Professor Veli Mäkinen (University of Helsinki). Navarro and Mäkinen are the authors of two standard textbooks in the field of compressed data structures for bioinformatics.
More information can be found on the Gran Sasso Science Institute website
Nicola Cotumaccio
HIIT Postdoctoral Fellow 1.2.2024-31.1.2027
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