Research

My research lies in the intersection of data science and genomics. I am interested in comparative genomics and genetic variations.

Research projects

  • We have an exciting 3-month remote research project. The potential candidate can send an email to Sina !

Supervision and mentorship

Graduate students

  • Fahimeh Palizban. Inferring copy number variation with cell-free DNA data, University of Lausanne, 2024.
  • karim Farmanpour. MEP and MEV biosynthetic pathways in Tanacetum parthenium. Tarbiat Modares University, 2024.
  • Arung Maurya. Reconstructing cancer phylogenies with Spatial Transcriptomics, University of Lausanne, 2023.
  • Sara Lamei. Analysing biosynthetic pathway of terpenoids in fenugreek using RNA-seq data. Tarbiat Modares University, 2022.
  • Rajarshi Mondal. T2T gene annotations of the Major Histocompatibility Complex. Pondicherry University, 2022.
  • Samuel Moix. Detecting whole genome duplication using hierarchical orthologous groups, University of Lausanne, 2021. (Now PhD student at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.)
  • Mathijs van Kooten. Creating an ensemble method combining haplotype estimates. Wageningen university, 2019. (Now at Twintos, the Netherlands).
  • Alireza Ahmadi, Matrix completion using total variation norm on graph structure, IUST unofficial, 2018.

Summer interns

  • Ali Yazdizadeh. Importance of phylogenetic rooting for orthology inference, 2022. (Incoming PhD student in Computational Biology, USA.)
  • Borbala Banfalvi, Claire Wang, and Petros Liakopoulos. Natural Language Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs, 2022.
  • Alina Nicheperovich. Orthology guided model organism selection, 2021. (Now DPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford, UK.)