Talks
Talks & presentations
A selection of invited talks, conference presentations, and lectures at conferences, workshops, and institutions.
2026
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Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in GenomicsSeminar Talk in the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET) Seminar Series (host: Prof. Allen Place). Baltimore, MD, USA. February 18 2026.
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Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in GenomicsSeminar Talk in the Cancer Data Science Laboratory (CDSL) Seminar Series (host: S. Cenk Sahinalp, Ph.D.). Bethesda, MD, USA. February 11 2026.
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Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in GenomicsConference Talk in the Arch4Health Workshop in conjunction with HPCA 2026. Sydney, Australia. January 31 2026.
2025
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Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesSeminar Talk in the 1st SAFARI Conference 2025 at ETH Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland. December 15 2025.
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Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesSeminar Talk in the 2025 CS Research Seminar Series at UMD. College Park, MD, USA. November 21 2025.
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Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesInvited Talk in the Multifunctional Integrated Circuits and Systems (MICS) Seminar Series (host: Yang (Cindy) Yi). Alexandria, VA, USA. November 20 2025.
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Accelerating AI-Driven Genome Analysis via Algorithm-Architecture Co-DesignInvited Talk at the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing, Challenges in Systems Design for Omics (PASC 2025). Brugg, Switzerland. June 16 2025.
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Fast and Efficient Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesInvited Talk at the GenScale Team of Inria at the University of Rennes (host: Pierre Peterlongo). Rennes, France. May 6 2025.
2024
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Rawsamble: Overlapping and Assembling Raw Nanopore Signals using a Hash-based Seeding MechanismConference Talk at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting, Biological Data Science (CSHL 2025). Cold Spring, NY, USA. November 14 2024.
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Enabling Fast, Accurate, and Efficient Real-Time Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and TechniquesPhD Thesis Defense, ETH Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland. November 2024.
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Enabling Fast, Accurate, and Efficient Real-Time Genomic Sequence Analysis via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesInvited Talk at AMD. Virtual. September 13 2024.
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Rawsamble: Overlapping and Assembling Raw Nanopore Signals using a Hash-based Seeding MechanismConference Talk at the 32nd Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2024). Montreal, QC, Canada. July 14 2024.
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Enabling Fast, Accurate, and Efficient Real-Time Genomic Sequence Analysis via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesInvited Talk at the Huawei Research Center Zurich. Zurich, Switzerland. May 17 2024.
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Real-Time Sequence Analysis from Raw Nanopore Electrical Signals with Accurate Hash-Based Search MechanismsInvited Talk at The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (host: Victoria Popic, PhD). Cambridge, MA, USA. May 10 2024.
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Real-Time Analysis of Genomic Sequences from Nanopore Electrical Signals by Fast and Accurate Hash-Based SearchInvited Talk at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) (host: Joshy George, PhD). Farmington, CT, USA. May 6 2024.
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Real-Time Analysis of Genomic Sequences from Nanopore Electrical Signals by Fast and Accurate Hash-Based SearchInvited Talk at Tufts University, Department of Computer Science (host: Prof. Lenore J. Cowen). Medford, MA, USA. May 3 2024.
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Introduction to Real-Time Raw Nanopore Signal Analysis: RawHash and RawHash2Invited Lecture, BIO310 - Introduction to Bioinformatics (Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Oznur Tastan) at Sabanci University. Istanbul, Turkey. March 18 2024.
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ApHMM: Accelerating Profile Hidden Markov Models for Fast and Energy-Efficient Genome AnalysisConference Talk at the High Performance, Edge and Cloud Computing (HiPEAC 2024). Munich, Germany. January 17 2024.
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RawHash and RawHash2: Enabling Fast and Accurate Real-Time Analysis of Raw Nanopore Signals for Large Genomes using a Hash-Based Seeding MechanismInvited Talk at the Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy (LIT) (host: Prof. Birte Kehr). Regensburg, Germany. January 17 2024.
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Enabling Fast, Accurate and Efficient Real-Time Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesInvited Talk at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), School of Computation, Information and Technology (host: Prof. Ulf Schlichtmann). Munich, Germany. January 16 2024.
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Enabling Fast, Accurate and Efficient Real-Time Genome Analysis via New Algorithms and ArchitecturesInvited Talk at the Huawei Munich Research Center. Munich, Germany. January 15 2024.
2023
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RawHash: Enabling Fast and Accurate Real-Time Analysis of Raw Nanopore Signals for Large GenomesConference Talk at the 31st Annual Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2023) and the 22nd European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2023). Lyon, France. July 25 2023.
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RawHash: Enabling Fast and Accurate Real-Time Analysis of Raw Nanopore Signals for Large GenomesConference Talk at the 5th Workshop on Accelerator Architecture in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (AACBB 2023). Orlando, FL, USA. June 18 2023.
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BLEND: A Fast, Memory-Efficient and Accurate Mechanism to Find Fuzzy Seed Matches in Genome AnalysisConference Talk at the 27th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2023). Istanbul, Turkey. April 19 2023.
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AirLift: A Fast and Comprehensive Technique for Remapping Alignments between Reference GenomesConference Talk at the 21st Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2023). Changsha, China. April 16 2023.
2022
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Enabling Accurate, Fast, and Memory-Efficient Genome Analysis via Efficient and Intelligent AlgorithmsInvited Talk at the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (host: Giulia Guidi). Berkeley, CA, USA. May 27 2022.
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Enabling Accurate, Fast, and Memory-Efficient Genome Analysis via Efficient and Intelligent AlgorithmsInvited Lecture, BIN590 Graduate Seminar in Bioinformatics (Instructor: Asst. Prof. Burcak Otlu) in the Graduate School of Informatics at Middle East Technical University. Virtual. January 10 2022.
2021
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Apollo: A Sequencing-Technology-Independent, Scalable and Accurate Assembly Polishing AlgorithmWorkshop Talk at the ExaBiome / PASSION / SAFARI Workshop on Architectures and HPC for Genomics. Virtual. May 26 2021.