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'. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics Lipics. ISSN: 1868-8969
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. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics, LIPIcs. 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 Switzerland. 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