Francesco Tosoni

Francesco Tosoni has been a research contractor at the School since the 1^st of September 2025, affiliated with the interdisciplinary centre Health Science and the department of excellence L'EMbeDS.

He earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, under the supervision of Professors P. Ferragina and G. Manzini. His doctoral dissertation, titled Computation-friendly Compression of Matrices and Tries, focused on efficient data compression techniques. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Acube Laboratory (A³, Advanced Algorithms and Applications), directed by Professor P. Ferragina.

His research interests include lossless data compression, string indexing and stringology, and big data analytics.

He obtained a BSc in Computer and Electronic Engineering from the University of Perugia. He then continued my studies at the University of Pisa, earning an MSc in Computer Science and Networking in 2020, as part of a joint programme with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies. His MSc thesis, Algorithms and Data Structures for Efficient Ride-Sharing Platforms, was awarded the Con.Scienze 2020 Best Thesis Award.

In 2020, he was awarded a scholarship and research grant on "Algorithms and Data Structures for Urban Mobility Platforms" at the University of Pisa. That same year, he obtained the qualification to register as a chartered engineer (Section A, Information Engineering).

From 8 September to 20 December 2022, he was a visiting researcher at Gonzalo Navarro's laboratory at the University of Chile in Santiago. In July 2025, he was a visiting researcher at the Software Heritage team at Inria Paris, co-founded by Roberto di Cosmo.