I'm leading the Advanced Algorithms and Application Lab (Acube), located at the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa. We design and implement algorithms for compressing, indexing, searching and mining Big Data. We had/have collaborations on these themes with Senseable City Lab at MIT (Boston, USA), Pinello Lab at Harvard and MassGeneral Hospital (Boston, USA), European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Google (Zurich), Bloomberg (London), ST Microelectronics, Tiscali (Istella's search engine), Yahoo! Research (Barcelona), ENEL Foundation, CERVED Group, Bassilichi, Spazio Dati.