STORM — NewsNews from the STORM Research Group at the University of Maryland, College Park.https://storm.cs.umd.edu/en-usEge Sirvan, Quang Nhat Ngo, and Ming Gao join STORM as the group’s first PhD students. Welcome!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTOur undergraduate researcher Simon Ambrozak joins Johns Hopkins University as a PhD student. Best wishes to Simon!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTUlysse McConnell presents his summer internship project in a CBCB Seminarhttps://talks.cs.umd.edu/talks/4639https://talks.cs.umd.edu/talks/4639Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTOur 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 Bioinformaticshttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan 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, Californiahttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTBhargav Srinivasan receives the Best Poster Prize at the HiTSeq track of ISMB 2026. Congratulations, Bhargav!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSTORM attends ISMB 2026 with undergraduate researchers Simon Ambrozak and Bhargav Srinivasan; Simon presents CRANE, and Bhargav presents RawModhttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the HPCA 2027 Program Committeehttps://conf.researchr.org/home/hpca-2027https://conf.researchr.org/home/hpca-2027Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTUlysse McConnell begins a summer research internship with STORM. Welcome to College Park, Ulysse!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan 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, Georgiahttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTOur CRANE paper is accepted for an abstract talk and RawMod for a poster presentation at ISMB 2026. Congratulations to all the co-authors!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina chairs the “Compression and string algorithms” session at RECOMB-Seq 2026 in Thessaloniki, Greecehttps://recomb-seq.github.io/seq2026/programhttps://recomb-seq.github.io/seq2026/programFri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina participates in the Career Roundtable panel at the Cancer Data Science Laboratory Annual Retreat at the National Cancer Institutehttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the IISWC 2026 Program Committeehttps://iiswc.org/iiswc2026/committee.htmlhttps://iiswc.org/iiswc2026/committee.htmlWed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina receives an allocation of 4,100 node-hours through the AMD University Program’s AI & HPC Clusterhttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe preprint of our CRANE paper is available on arXivhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20420https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20420Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the RECOMB-Arch 2026 Program Committeehttps://recomb-arch.github.io/https://recomb-arch.github.io/Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan 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 Serieshttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan 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 Institutehttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves as an Area Chair for ACM-BCB 2026https://acm-bcb.org/index.phphttps://acm-bcb.org/index.phpSun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the ECCB 2026 Program Committeehttps://eccb2026.org/https://eccb2026.org/Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the MICRO 2026 Program Committeehttps://microarch.org/micro59/https://microarch.org/micro59/Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTOur Rawsamble paper is published in Bioinformaticshttps://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag087https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag087Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan 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, Australiahttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTBurak Ozkan and Ulysse McConnell join STORM as affiliated researchers. Welcome!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina receives a research gift from AMDhttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTRonak Vimal and Shivaritha Sakthi Rengasamy join STORM as graduate researchers. Welcome!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the RECOMB-Seq 2026 Program Committeehttps://recomb-seq.github.io/seq2026/committeeshttps://recomb-seq.github.io/seq2026/committeesThu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTErnest Zhang and Vir S Gandhi join STORM as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTCan 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 Zurichhttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the DAC 2026 Technical Program Committee (DES3)https://dac.com/2026/technical-program-committeehttps://dac.com/2026/technical-program-committeeMon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the ISCA 2026 Program Committeehttps://iscaconf.org/isca2026/committees/pc.phphttps://iscaconf.org/isca2026/committees/pc.phpMon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTCan 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 Serieshttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina gives an invited talk, “Enabling Real-Time Analysis of Human Genomes via New Algorithms and Architectures,” as part of the MICS Seminar Serieshttps://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTOur SAGe paper is accepted to appear at HPCA 2026https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11408512https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11408512Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the RECOMB 2026 Program Committeehttps://recomb.org/recomb2026/committeeshttps://recomb.org/recomb2026/committeesSat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTOur RawBench paper is published at ACM-BCB 2025https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3765612.3767302https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3765612.3767302Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTSimon Ambrozak and Bhargav Srinivasan join STORM as undergraduate researchers. Welcome!https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/https://storm.cs.umd.edu/news/Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina serves on the HPCA 2026 Program Committeehttps://2026.hpca-conf.org/committee/hpca-2026-program-committeehttps://2026.hpca-conf.org/committee/hpca-2026-program-committeeTue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTCan Firtina joins the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science as an Assistant Professorhttps://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2025/07/can-firtina-joins-computer-science-faculty-focus-bioinformatics-and-computerhttps://www.cs.umd.edu/article/2025/07/can-firtina-joins-computer-science-faculty-focus-bioinformatics-and-computerMon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT