Scholar

W F Smyth

Google Scholar ID: 1cBibC4AAAAJ

Professor Emeritus, Computer Science, McMaster University

combinatorics on wordsstring algorithms

Citations & Impact

All-time

Citations

969

H-index

i10-index

Publications

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Contact

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Academic Achievements

Published five papers in 2024, including a major survey on string covering
h-index reached 34
A special issue of Theoretical Computer Science on Stringology was published in 2016 to honor his 80th birthday
Reviewer for Mathematical Reviews since 2009
Fellow of the British Computer Society (1983)
Longstanding member of professional organizations including ACM, AMS, and SIAM

Research Experience

Steering Committee Member of the International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms (IWOCA) from 2006 to 2020; co-founder since 1987
Founder of StringMasters workshop (2007)
Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Institute of Combinatorics & Its Applications
Continues serving on the Boards of Directors of both IWOCA and Prague Stringology Conference (PSC)
Supervises PhD and MSc students researching string algorithms and machine learning applications in computational biology

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