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Simona is Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Palermo (Palermo, Italy), where she previously worked as Associate Professor and as Tenured Assistant Professor (since September 2012). Her main research activities focus on Bioinformatics, Big Data Analysis, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Data Mining. She is author or co-author of over 70 scientific publications on international journals and she is Principal Investigator of both national and international research projects in these fields. More recently, Simona has co-founded an innovative startup that is also spinoff of University of Palermo, located in Sicily, one of the most beautiful islands of the Mediterranean.

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Simona E. Rombo was a Research Fellow at ICAR-CNR since July 2010 to September 2012, and at DEIS of Universitá della Calabria (Cosenza, Italy) since March 2006 to June 2010. In those years, she worked on biological network analysis (alignment and clustering), pattern discovery from biological sequences, compression and classification of digital images.

She was visiting scientist at the College of Computing of Georgia Institute of Technology, where she worked on motif extraction and data compression. In collaboration with the Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica of the Universitá degli Studi di Palermo, she contributed to the development of some packages for statistical indices computation included in the SeqAn Library for sequence analysis developed at the Institut für Informatik of the Freie Universität of Berlin.

In March 2006, Simona E. Rombo concluded her PhD in "Ingegneria Informatica, Biomedica e delle Telecomunicazioni (Computer Sciences, Biomedicine and Telecommunications)"; the dissertation title is "Methods and Techniques in Bioinformatics Applied to Pattern Discovery and Protein Structure Prediction". During her doctoral studies, she was visiting scholar at the Computer Science Department of the Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana, USA), where she started working on motif extraction from digital images.

On July 24, 2002, Simona E. Rombo obtained her Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering (summa cum laude), from the Universitá "Mediterranea" of Reggio Calabria.

Simona E. Rombo got the diploma of scientific maturity at Liceo Scientifico Leonardo Da Vinci of Reggio Calabria with score 60/60 in July 1996.

Simona E. Rombo was born in Reggio Calabria (Italy), where she grow up and studied.

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