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. 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
Verbeek, H., Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G. and Pissis, SP. (2024) 'Minimizing the Minimizers via Alphabet Reordering'.35th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2024). Fukuoka, Japan. 18 - 27 June. Schloss Dagstuhl – LZI GmbH. pp. 28:1 - 28:13. ISSN: 1868-8969 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Loukides, G., Pissis, SP. and Verbeek, H. (2024) 'Sparse Suffix and LCP Array: Simple, Direct, Small, and Fast'.16th Latin American Symposium. Puerto Varas, Chile. 6 - 22 March. Springer Nature. pp. 162 - 177. ISSN: 0302-9743 Open Access Link
Ayad, LAK., Chikhi, R. and Pissis, SP. (2023) 'Seedability: optimizing alignment parameters for sensitive sequence comparison'. Bioinformatics Advances, 3 (1). pp. vbad108. ISSN: 2635-0041 Open Access Link