Talks & Presentations
Conference Presentations
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RECOMB 2026 [May, 2026 - Thessaloniki, Greece]
- Deconvolving Phylogenetic Distance Mixtures [slides]
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RECOMB-seq 2026 [May, 2026 - Thessaloniki, Greece]
- A genome-wide likelihood framework for distance-based pattern matching [slides]
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Contemporary Challenges in Large-Scale Sequence Alignments & Phylogenies [August, 2025 - IMSI, Chicago]
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RECOMB 2025 [April, 2025 - Yonsei University, Seoul]
- Estimating read-genome distances from homologous k-mers (and genome-wide phylogenetic placement) [slides]
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RECOMB 2024 [April, 2024 - MIT, Boston]
- Memory-bound and taxonomy-aware k-mer selection for large reference databases [slides]
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BioSys 2024 (in conjunction with ASPLOS) [April, 2024 - La Jolla, CA]
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RECOMB-CG 2023 [April, 2023 - Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul]
- CONSULT-II: Taxonomic identification using locality sensitive hashing [slides]
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MLCB 2021 [October, 2021 - Virtual Conference]
- MuDCoD: Multi-subject community detection in dynamic gene networks (short talk) [slides]
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Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU) 2020 [September, 2020 - Virtual Conference]
- Active Learning for Turkish Text Classification
Seminars & Invited Talks
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Invited Lecture, BIO 310 - Introduction to Bioinformatics (host: Oznur Tastan) [May, 2026 - Sabancı University, Istanbul]
- Scalable methods for phylogeny-aware sequence analysis [slides]
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Seminar Talk, CSE 290 - Seminar in Computer Science and Engineering (host: Vineet Bafna) [May, 2026 - UC San Diego]
- A distance-based likelihood framework for genome-wide (phylogenetic) pattern matching [slides]
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Seminar Talk, CSE 290 - Seminar in Computer Science and Engineering (host: Vineet Bafna) [April, 2025 - UC San Diego]
- Estimating read-genome distances from homologous k-mer matches (and genome-wide phylogenetic placement) [slides]
Miscellaneous
- Student Talk, BNFO 283 - Student Research Talks (host: Nathan Lewis) [March, 2023 - UC San Diego, La Jolla]
- Multi-subject community detection in dynamic gene networks [slides]
Posters
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RECOMB 2026 [May, 2026 - Thessaloniki, Greece]
- A genome-wide likelihood framework for distance estimation & pattern matching [poster]
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ProbGen (Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics) 2026 [March, 2025 - UC Berkeley, Berkeley]
- A probabilistic framework for sequence distances & genome-wide (phylogenetic) pattern matching [poster]
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Contemporary Challenges in Large-Scale Sequence Alignments & Phylogenies [August, 2025 - IMSI, Chicago]
- Mapping strongly discordant regions on the genome using hidden markov models [poster]
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MLCB 2021 [October, 2021 - Virtual Conference]
- MuDCoD: Multi-subject community detection in dynamic gene networks [poster]