Solon P. Pissis
Associate Professor
Computation-based Science and Technology Research Centre (CaSToRC)
The Cyprus Institute
Background
I read Computer Science at the University of Athens (2007)
before completing my M.Sc in High-Performance Computing at the University of Edinburgh (2008). I obtained my Ph.D in Computer Science from King's
College London (2012).
I was a faculty member at King's College London from 2013 to 2018. Following that, I spent seven wonderful years as a Senior Researcher at CWI from 2019 to 2026.
In 2026, I joined The Cyprus Institute.
Research
My research area is algorithms and data structures with an emphasis on processing big data.
I am interested in applications when there is a very good theoretical reason.
Professional Activities
- Editorial board member of Algorithmica
- Advisory board member of TheoretiCS
- Steering committee member of ALENEX
- Steering committee member of ESA
- Organization chair of ALGO 2023
- PC co-chair of SPIRE 2026 (with Neerja Mhaskar),
ALENEX 2024 (with Rezaul Chowdhury),
WABI 2024 (with Wing-Kin Sung),
PSC 2023 (with Jan Holub),
CPM 2019 (with Nadia Pisanti),
SEA 2017 (with Simon Puglisi and Rajeev Raman)
- PC member of
SOSA 2027,
ESA 2026 (Track S),
LATIN 2026,
ECCB 2026,
PSC 2026,
CPM 2025,
WABI 2025,
SPIRE 2025,
PSC 2025,
WABI 2023,
ISAAC 2022,
SPIRE 2022,
WABI 2022,
CPM 2022,
ECCB 2022,
CiE 2022,
SPIRE 2021,
WABI 2021,
ALENEX 2021,
SOFSEM 2021,
WALCOM 2021,
CPM 2020,
FUN 2020,
ECCB 2020,
WABI 2020,
SPIRE 2020,
WALCOM 2020,
SPIRE 2019,
IWOCA 2019,
WABI 2018,
WALCOM 2018,
IWOCA 2018,
IWOCA 2017,
SPIRE 2017,
CPM 2016,
IWOCA 2016,
SPIRE 2015,
IWOCA 2015,
IWOCA 2014,
IWOCA 2013
Ph.D Supervision
Latest Research Outputs
- Jialong Zhou, Ben Bals, Matei Tinca, Ai Guan, Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Grigorios Loukides, Solon P. Pissis: Subtree Mode and Applications.
ICDE 2026 [arXiv]
- Ling Li, Daniel Gibney, Sharma V. Thankachan, Solon P. Pissis, Grigorios Loukides: Contextual Pattern Mining and Counting.
ICDE 2026 [arXiv]
- Solon P. Pissis: Maximal Palindromes in MPC: Simple and Optimal. SOSA 2026 [arXiv]
- Solon P. Pissis: Text Indexing and Pattern Matching with Ephemeral Edits. SOSA 2026 [arXiv]
- Pengxin Bian, Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Lorraine Ayad, Manal Mohamed, Solon P. Pissis, Grigorios Loukides: Resilient Pattern Mining. ICDM 2025 [arXiv]
A fairly complete list is at DBLP. The complete list can be found in my CV [pdf].
Solon P. Pissis
Last modification: Apr 2025
