Updates

Upcoming

27 Oct 2022

Will be attending the Rising Stars in EECS Workshop at the University of Texas at Austin.

Past

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7 June 2022	Selected to the 2022 cohort of Rising Stars in EECS by the University of Texas at Austin.
7 June 2022	Delivered an invited virtual talk on Biologically Annotated Neural Networks at Kundaje Lab, Stanford University
6 June 2022	Started a summer research internship at Microsoft Research (Health Futures)
22 May 2022	Oral presentation at the RECOMB conference on Unsupervised integration of single-cell multi-omics datasets with disparities in cell-type representation
12 April 2022	Received the 2022 RECOMB Travel Fellowship
14 Dec 2021	Keynote talk at the Optimal Transport in Machine Learning Workshop at 2021 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
10 Dec 2021	Delivered an invited talk on Biologically Annotated Neural Networks at the Translational Bioinformatics Journal Club at Brown University.
21 Oct 2021	Delivered an invited talk at University of Connecticut Bioinformatics Seminar on single-cell multi-omic dataset alignment.
30 Sept 2021	Our lab received a 5-year flexible research funding through the 2021 NIH Genomic Innovator Award granted to Dr. Ritambhara Singh
29 August 2021	Presented Gromov–Wasserstein Optimal Transport to Align Single-Cell Multi-Omics Data at the 25th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB) .
11 August 2021	Our work on multi-scale genomic inference has been accepted for publication at PLOS Genetics!
27 May 2021	Passed my qualifying exam, defended my dissertation proposal, and advanced to candidacy!
02 March 2021	My Ph.D. co-adviser, Sorin Istrail, Ph.D., has been named an International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) fellow for his foundational contributions to computational biology.
17 February 2021	Established my thesis committee and held an exploratory meeting to discuss my Ph.D. dissertation proposal.
18 Dec 2020	Our work on single-cell multi-omic data integration has been accepted at the 25th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Biology (RECOMB)
24 Nov 2020	Delivered a talk on our paper "Gromov-Wasserstein optimal transport to align single-cell multi-omics data" at the 2020 Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB) conference. Video here.
10 Nov 2020	Poster presentation on applications of optimal transport to single-cell multi-omics at the Workshop on Optimal Control, Optimal Transport, and Data Science hosted by University of Minnesota Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA).
28 Oct 2020	Served as a reviewer for the Machine Learning in Computational Biology (MLCB) conference.
23 Sept 2020	My Ph.D. adviser, Ritambhara Singh, Ph.D. presents our work titled "Unsupervised manifold alignment for single-cell multi-omics data" at the 2020 ACM-BCB conference.
18 Sept 2020	Last day of my internship at Microsoft Research.
17 July 2020	Received the 2020 ICML WCB Fellowship award.
17 July 2020	Spotlight talk (by me) and poster presentation (by Rebecca Santorella) on our work on single-cell multi-omics integration at the 2020 International Conference in Machine Learning (ICML) - Workshop on Computational Biology). Poster presentation received the Best Poster Award.
15 July 2020	Berk Alpay presented our paper "Combinatorial and statistical prediction of gene expression from haplotype sequence" at the 28th Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB). Video here.
14 July 2020	Presented our work on single-cell multi-omics integration at the 28th Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB). Video for poster presentation (by me) is here and the video for talk (by Rebecca Santorella) is here
29 June 2020	Delivered a talk on optimal transport theory applications on single-cell multi-omics integration at the 2020 Brown Unconference on Computational Intelligence and Applications.
15 June 2020	Started my summer internship at Microsoft Research with the Genomics Team.
13 April 2020	Our paper "Combinatorial and statistical prediction of gene expression from haplotype sequence" got accepted for publication and presentation at the 28th Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (ISMB)
30 Oct 2019	Delivered an invited talk on Bayesian hierarchical models for multi-scale genomic association at the 2019 CCV-Con.
02 July 2019	Our paper on my work at MIT, "Rapid Accumulation of Motility-Activating Mutations in Resting Liquid Culture of Escherichia coli" got accepted for publication at the Journal of Bacteriology