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- Ege Sirvan, Quang Nhat Ngo, and Ming Gao join STORM as the group’s first PhD students. Welcome!
- Our undergraduate researcher Simon Ambrozak joins Johns Hopkins University as a PhD student. Best wishes to Simon!
- Ulysse McConnell presents his summer internship project in a CBCB Seminar
- Our paper “De Bruijn Graphs for Pangenomics: In-depth Performance Benchmarking of de Bruijn Graph-Based Tools for Read Mapping” is accepted for publication in Briefings in Bioinformatics
- Can Firtina gives an invited talk, “Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in Genomics,” at the Computational Genomics Summer Institute 2026 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California
- Bhargav Srinivasan receives the Best Poster Prize at the HiTSeq track of ISMB 2026. Congratulations, Bhargav!
- STORM attends ISMB 2026 with undergraduate researchers Simon Ambrozak and Bhargav Srinivasan; Simon presents CRANE, and Bhargav presents RawMod
- Can Firtina serves on the HPCA 2027 Program Committee
- Ulysse McConnell begins a summer research internship with STORM. Welcome to College Park, Ulysse!
- Can Firtina gives an invited talk, “Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in Genomics,” during the Next-Generation Adaptable Computing for Omics Workshop at FCCM 2026 in Atlanta, Georgia
- Our CRANE paper is accepted for an abstract talk and RawMod for a poster presentation at ISMB 2026. Congratulations to all the co-authors!
- Can Firtina chairs the “Compression and string algorithms” session at RECOMB-Seq 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greece
- Can Firtina participates in the Career Roundtable panel at the Cancer Data Science Laboratory Annual Retreat at the National Cancer Institute
- Can Firtina serves on the IISWC 2026 Program Committee
- Can Firtina receives an allocation of 4,100 node-hours through the AMD University Program’s AI & HPC Cluster
- The preprint of our CRANE paper is available on arXiv
- Can Firtina serves on the RECOMB-Arch 2026 Program Committee
- Can Firtina gives an invited seminar, “Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in Genomics,” as part of the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology Seminar Series
- Can Firtina gives an invited seminar, “Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in Genomics,” as part of the Cancer Data Science Laboratory Seminar Series at the National Cancer Institute
- Can Firtina serves as an Area Chair for ACM-BCB 2026
- Can Firtina serves on the ECCB 2026 Program Committee
- Can Firtina serves on the MICRO 2026 Program Committee
- Our Rawsamble paper is published in Bioinformatics
- Can Firtina gives an invited talk, “Lost in Translation: Harnessing the Power of Nanopore Electrical Signals in Genomics,” during the Arch4Health Workshop at HPCA 2026 in Sydney, Australia
- Burak Ozkan and Ulysse McConnell join STORM as affiliated researchers. Welcome!
- Can Firtina receives a research gift from AMD
- Ronak Vimal and Shivaritha Sakthi Rengasamy join STORM as graduate researchers. Welcome!
- Can Firtina serves on the RECOMB-Seq 2026 Program Committee
- Ernest Zhang and Vir S Gandhi join STORM as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
2025
- Can Firtina gives an invited seminar, “Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and Architectures,” during the 1st SAFARI Conference 2025 at ETH Zurich
- Can Firtina serves on the DAC 2026 Technical Program Committee (DES3)
- Can Firtina serves on the ISCA 2026 Program Committee
- Can Firtina gives an invited research seminar, “Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and Architectures,” as part of UMD Computer Science’s 2025 Research Seminar Series
- Can Firtina gives an invited talk, “Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and Architectures,” as part of the MICS Seminar Series
- Our SAGe paper is accepted to appear at HPCA 2026
- Can Firtina serves on the RECOMB 2026 Program Committee
- Our RawBench paper is published at ACM-BCB 2025
- Simon Ambrozak and Bhargav Srinivasan join STORM as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!
- Can Firtina serves on the HPCA 2026 Program Committee
- Can Firtina joins the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professor