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.)
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