<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Please feel free to share the information below with candidates who may be interested:</div><div><br></div><div><div>I will be recruiting 2 PhD students to join my new research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD).</div><div><br></div><div><div>We explore many exciting directions related to designing algorithms, AI, and hardware for bioinformatics, such as:</div><div>+ Multimodal systems for biological data (e.g., electrical signals, basecalled sequences, spatial/image data)</div><div>+ Hardware–algorithm–software co-design for portable, real-time omics analysis</div><div>+ Algorithms and AI to enable fundamentally new directions in bioinformatics</div><div><br></div><div>If you are deeply interested in building algorithms and computing systems that make biological data analysis fast, accurate, and energy-efficient with high impact in medicine and health, please consider applying.</div><div><br></div><div>To learn more about our research, please visit my website at https://www.cs.umd.edu/~firtina/. You can use the Google Forms link on my website to upload your application documents.</div><div><br></div><div>UMD CS PhD application deadline: December 5, 2025. If you are interested in working with me, please mention my name in your application materials.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Can</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">=========<br></span><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Can Firtina</span></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">cfirtina.com</span></div></div>
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