Can Firtina

Can Firtina is an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD). He obtained his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich, and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from Bilkent University.

His research interests broadly span bioinformatics and computer architecture topics, including real-time, accurate, fast, and energy-efficient genome analysis, hardware-software co-design for accelerating bioinformatics workloads, and developing computational tools for genome editing. His research has been published in major bioinformatics and computer architecture venues.