String Processing and Information Retrieval
SPIRE2005
 Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 2-4,2005


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Invited Speakers

This year the Steering Committee invited the following speakers:

Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research (USA)

Prabhakar Raghavan is Head of Yahoo! Research and Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, where he co-teaches the course sequence on Text and Web Retrieval. His research interests include semi-structured retrieval, text mining and randomized algorithms. He is Editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM and a Fellow of the ACM and of the IEEE. Raghavan holds a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from IIT in Madras.

Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa (Italy)

Paolo Ferragina is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Pisa, and the scientific coordinator of the Signum Research Center at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the same University and a Post-Doc from the Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik (Germany). His research interests include string-matching algorithms and data structures, data compression and WebIR. His research results received some international awards: EATCS Doctoral Dissertation Thesis Award (1997), Philip Morris Award on Science and Technology (1997), Research Capital award from University of Pisa (2002). Ferragina served as Program Committee member of several international conferences and (co)Editor of special issues in two international journals.

Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile (Chile)

Gonzalo Navarro is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Chile, where he obtained his PhD in 1998, followed by postdoctoral stays at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and Université de Marne-La-Vallée (France). His current research interests are exact and approximate string matching, text indexes, and compressed text databases. He is coauthor of the book "Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings" and has coauthored 10 book chapters and around 50 journal articles. He belongs to the Editorial Board of "Information Retrieval" journal and has chaired three international conferences.