Welcome to the Advanced Algorithms and Applications Laboratory, shortly the A³ Lab. We are a research group founded in 2003 by Prof. Paolo Ferragina and located at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pisa. We design, analyse and develop effective and efficient algorithms for Compressed and Learned Data Structures, Data Compression, Natural Language Understanding, and Digital Health.

The A³ Lab received a vast number of governmental and industrial grants to support its researches, spanning from a Yahoo! Research Grant in 2006 to the more recent Google (2016), Bloomberg (2017) and EBU (2020) Grants. Our lab is also part of SoBigData++, a distributed, pan-European (14 countries and 41 partners), multi-disciplinary European Research Infrastructure aimed at using social mining and big data to understand the complexity of our contemporary, globally interconnected society.
We invite you to have a look at the topics we research on as well as at the full list of the grants received in the past years.