Talks & Presentations

Conference Presentations

  • Contemporary Challenges in Large-Scale Sequence Alignments & Phylogenies

    • IMSI (UChicago), Chicago [August, 2025]
    • Read-genome distance calculation & phylogenetic placement using krepp [tutorial] [slides, recording]
    • Mapping strongly discordant regions on the genome using hidden Markov models [short talk] [slides, recording]
  • RECOMB 2025

    • Yonsei University, Seoul [April, 2025]
    • Estimating read-genome distances using homologous k-mers (and genome-wide phylogenetic placement) [slides]
  • RECOMB 2024

    • MIT, Boston [April, 2024]
    • Memory-bound and taxonomy-aware k-mer selection for large reference databases [slides]
  • BioSys 2024 (in conjunction with ASPLOS 2024)

  • RECOMB-CG 2023

    • ITU, Istanbul [April, 2023]
    • CONSULT-II: Taxonomic identification using locality sensitive hashing [slides]
  • MLCB 2021

    • Virtual Conference [October, 2021]
    • MuDCoD: Multi-subject community detection in dynamic gene networks [short talk] [slides]
  • Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU) 2020

    • Virtual Conference [September, 2020]
    • Active Learning for Turkish Text Classification

Invited Talks & Seminars

Miscellaneous

Posters

  • ProbGen (Probabilistic Modeling in Genomics) 2026

    • UC Berkeley, Berkeley [March, 2025]
    • A probabilistic framework for sequence distances & genome-wide (phylogenetic) pattern matching [poster]
  • Contemporary Challenges in Large-Scale Sequence Alignments & Phylogenies

    • IMSI (UChicago), Chicago [August, 2025]
    • Mapping strongly discordant regions on the genome using hidden markov models [poster]
  • MLCB 2021

    • Virtual Conference [October, 2021]
    • MuDCoD: Multi-subject community detection in dynamic gene networks [poster]