Research

My research lies in the intersection of data science, signal processing and genetics. I am interested in comparative genomics, genetic variations and haplotype assembly.

Collabrations

Dr. Medhat Mahmoud. Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Adrian Altenhoff . ETH Zurich.
Dr. Arman Beyraghdar. Tarbiat Modares University.
Dr. S. Amir Malekpour . Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences. Iran.
Dr. Pouya Salehipour . Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Iran.
Feel free to contact me and we will discuss!

Co-supervision

Graduate students

Arung Maurya. Reconstructing cancer phylogenies, University of Lausanne, 2023.
Sara Lamei. Analysing biosynthetic pathway of terpenoids in fenugreek using RNA-seq data. Tarbiat Modares University, 2022.
Samuel Moix. Detecting whole genome duplication using hierarchical orthologous groups, University of Lausanne, 2021.
Mathijs van Kooten. Creating an ensemble method combining haplotype estimates. Wageningen university, 2019.
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.
A team of five: Borbala Banfalvi, Claire Wang, and Petros Liakopoulos. Natural Language Question Answering over Knowledge Graphs, 2022.
Alina Nicheperovich. Orthology guided model organism selection, 2021.