2026 Giovanni Manzini: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	36	11061	10749	351	349	135	7602

Overview

Giovanni Manzini is affiliated with the University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro in Italy. Their research primarily intersects Computer Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a predominant focus on Artificial Intelligence and Molecular Biology within those fields.

Manzini's body of work encompasses a range of topics including:

Algorithms and Data Compression
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
DNA and Biological Computing
Semigroups and Automata Theory
Network Packet Processing and Optimization

The scientist has contributed research articles to multiple publication venues. Notable venues with frequent publications include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
IEEE Access
Journal of Computational Biology
Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (Schloss Dagstuhl)

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Manzini are:

Efficient Construction of a Complete Index for Pan-Genomics Read Alignment (2020), CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
PFP Compressed Suffix Trees (2021), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics eBooks
PHONI: Streamed Matching Statistics with Multi-Genome References (2021), CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa)
Improving matrix-vector multiplication via lossless grammar-compressed matrices (2022), Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Matching Reads to Many Genomes with the r-Index (2020), Journal of Computational Biology

Manzini frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

Travis Gagie
Gonzalo Navarro
Ben Langmead
Paolo Ferragina
Marinella Sciortino

The research contributions cover multiple aspects of theoretical computer science and applied computational biology, often focusing on efficient data structures and algorithms relevant to genomic data processing and indexing.

Best Publications

Opportunistic data structures with applications

P. Ferragina;G. Manzini

1508
Citations
Indexing compressed text

Paolo Ferragina;Giovanni Manzini

860
Citations
Engineering a Lightweight Suffix Array Construction Algorithm

Giovanni Manzini;Paolo Ferragina

485
Citations
An analysis of the Burrows—Wheeler transform

Giovanni Manzini

448
Citations
Compressed representations of sequences and full-text indexes

Paolo Ferragina;Giovanni Manzini;Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

436
Citations
An experimental study of an opportunistic index

Paolo Ferragina;Giovanni Manzini

247
Citations
Compressing and indexing labeled trees, with applications

Paolo Ferragina;Fabrizio Luccio;Giovanni Manzini;S. Muthukrishnan

178
Citations
Lightweight Data Indexing and Compression in External Memory

Paolo Ferragina;Travis Gagie;Giovanni Manzini

171
Citations
An Alphabet-Friendly FM-Index

Paolo Ferragina;Giovanni Manzini;Veli Mäkinen;Gonzalo Navarro

166
Citations
Compression-based classification of biological sequences and structures via the Universal Similarity Metric: experimental assessment.

Paolo Ferragina;Raffaele Giancarlo;Valentina Greco;Giovanni Manzini

152
Citations
Structuring labeled trees for optimal succinctness, and beyond

P. Ferragina;F. Luccio;G. Manzini;S. Muthukrishnan

152
Citations
Permuted Longest-Common-Prefix Array

Juha Kärkkäinen;Giovanni Manzini;Simon J. Puglisi

143
Citations
Boosting textual compression in optimal linear time

Paolo Ferragina;Raffaele Giancarlo;Giovanni Manzini;Marinella Sciortino

138
Citations
Compression of Low Entropy Strings with Lempel--Ziv Algorithms

S. Rao Kosaraju;Giovanni Manzini

136
Citations
On computing the entropy of cellular automata

Michele D'amico;Giovanni Manzini;Luciano Margara

123
Citations
Two space saving tricks for linear time LCP array computation

Giovanni Manzini

118
Citations
Perturbation: An Efficient Technique for the Solution of Very Large Instances of the Euclidean TSP

Bruno Codenotti;Giovanni Manzini;Luciano Margara;Giovanni Resta

118
Citations
Wheeler graphs: A framework for BWT-based data structures

Travis Gagie;Giovanni Manzini;Jouni Sirén

110
Citations
BIDA: an improved perimeter search algorithm

Giovanni Manzini

103
Citations
Compressing and searching XML data via two zips

P. Ferragina;F. Luccio;G. Manzini;S. Muthukrishnan

97
Citations
Compression of low entropy strings with Lempel-Ziv algorithms

S.R. Kosaraju;G. Manzini

6
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Ferragina University of Pisa

gonzalo navarro University of Chile

Raffaele Giancarlo University of Palermo

Ben Langmead Johns Hopkins University

William F. Smyth McMaster University

s muthukrishnan Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Veli Mäkinen University of Helsinki

Pietro Liò University of Cambridge

Gianluca De Bellis National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Sandra D'Alfonso University of Eastern Piedmont Amadeo Avogadro

External Links

Personal website of Giovanni Manzini Google Scholar page

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