Paola Bonizzoni is an Italian
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
. She is a professor of computer science at the
Università di Milano-Bicocca. Her research areas include
computational complexity
In computer science, the computational complexity or simply complexity of an algorithm is the amount of resources required to run it. Particular focus is given to computation time (generally measured by the number of needed elementary operations) ...
,
graph algorithms,
computational biology
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, and
bioinformatics
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.
Career
Bonizzoni studied computer science at the
University of Milan where she graduated in 1988 and obtained a doctorate in 1993 under the supervision of
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht
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Life
Andrzej Ehrenfeucht formulated the Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé game, using the back-and-forth method given in Roland Fraïssé's PhD thesis. ...
, Giancarlo Mauri, and
Grzegorz Rozenberg
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His primary research areas are natural computing,
formal language and automata theory, graph transformations, and concurrent systems.
He is referre ...
. She worked at the
University of Milan while holding visiting positions at the
University of Colorado Boulder,
UC Davis, and
McMaster University. Since 1998, she has been affiliated with the
Università di Milano-Bicocca where she was promoted to
professor in 2007. Since 2018, she has been a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
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Bonizzoni is Managing Editor of the journal ''Computability'' and editor of the book series ''Theory and Application of Computability''. From 2016 to 2020, she served as the third President of the
Association Computability in Europe. As of 2020, she is a member of the Association Council.
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Italian women computer scientists
Italian computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Milano-Bicocca
University of Milan alumni
Computational biologists
Italian bioinformaticians
Women computational biologists