BIOPIM Workshop
6-7 October 2026, Bilkent University, Ankara
A two day workshop on leveraging Processing in Memory (PIM) techniques to accelerate genomic applications, held in Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. The workshop is open to the public. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to attend and listen to talks from BioPIM partners and invited speakers from different institutions.
Register for free using the form here: https://forms.gle/YHYkxNvGa1oxKXCW7
Day 1: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
Location: Mithat Çoruh Auditorium, EB Building
| Time | Session | Details/Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:05 | Welcome Address | Can Alkan |
| 09:05 - 10:00 | Partner Talk | Bilkent University: Can Alkan |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Poster Lightning Talks | |
| 10:30-11:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Invited Talk | Victoria Popic (Broad Institute) |
| 12:00-13:30 — Lunch Break (on your own) | ||
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Partner Talk | Institut Pasteur: Yoshihiro Shibuya |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Invited Talk | Santiago Marco Sola (BSC) |
| 15:30-16:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Invited Talk | Iman Hajirasouliha (Weill Cornell Medicine) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Short Talks | |
Day 2: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Location: EE-01
| Time | Session | Details/Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Partner Talk | IBM: İrem Boybat In-Memory Computing for Efficient AI: From Edge Inference to Large-Scale Systems |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Short Talk | |
| 10:30-11:00 — Coffee Break | 11:00 - 12:00 | Partner Talk | CNRS: Dominique Lavenier Implementation of genomic algorithms on UPMEM architectures |
| 12:00-13:30 — Lunch Break (on your own) | ||
| 13:30 - 14:30 | Partner Talk | ETH: Onur Mutlu |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Invited Talk | Geraldo Francisco de Oliveira Junior (Huawei) |
| 15:30-16:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Invited Talk | Christina Giannulla (Max Planck Institute) Towards a Programmable Data-Centric AI Stack for Processing-In-Memory Architectures |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Short Talk | |