Dr Lorraine Ayad
Lecturer - Computer Science
Summary
Lorraine Ayad is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. She completed her PhD at King's College London in 2019 with a thesis titled Efficient sequence comparison via combining alignment and alignment-free techniques.
Newest selected publications
Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G., Pissis, SP. and Verbeek, H. (2026) 'Sparse Suffix and LCP Array: Simple, Direct, Small, and Fast'. Algorithmica, 88 (3). pp. 1 - 23. ISSN: 0178-4617 Open Access Link
Verbeek, H., Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G. and Pissis, SP. (2026) 'Minimizing the minimizers via alphabet reordering'. Theoretical Computer Science, 1076. pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 0304-3975
Bian, P., Charalampopoulos, P., Ayad, LAK., Mohamed, M., Pissis, SP. and Loukides, G. (2025) 'Resilient Pattern Mining'.2025 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). Washington DC, USA. 12 - 15 November. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). pp. 81 - 89. ISSN: 1550-4786 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G. and Pissis, SP. (2025) 'Text indexing for long patterns using locally consistent anchors'. VLDB Journal, 34 (5). ISSN: 1066-8888
Ayad, LAK., Fici, G., Koerkamp, RG., Loukides, G., Patro, R., Pibiri, GE. and et al. (2025) 'U-Index: A Universal Indexing Framework for Matching Long Patterns'.23rd International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms (SEA 2025). Venice, Italy. 15 - 24 July. Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik. pp. 4-1 - 4-18. ISSN: 1868-8969 Open Access Link