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C. Iliopoulos, Professor at King's College London and Head of the Bioinformatics and Algorithm Design Group, and Professor at Curtin University of Technology An author/co-author of more than 100 publications. His research interests focus on the design and analysis of string algorithms, algorithms for music analysis and for biological sequences, data compression and compressed matching