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.
Location: Mithat Çoruh Auditorium, EB Building
Register for free using the form here: https://forms.gle/YHYkxNvGa1oxKXCW7
Day 1: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
| 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 | Short Talk | |
| 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 Rethinking Bioinformatics at Scale: Exploring Processing Near Memory with UPMEM |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Invited Talk | Santiago Marco Sola (BSC) Computing Where It Matters: Rethinking Genomic Index Search and Alignment for Processing Near Memory |
| 15:30-16:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Invited Talk | Iman Hajirasouliha (Weill Cornell Medicine) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Short Talk | Arda Söylev Large-scale pangenomics in the post-linear era |
Day 2: Wednesday, October 7, 2026
| 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 | Orhun Görkem (IBM) |
| 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 | Invited Talk | Christina Giannnoula (Max Planck Institute) Towards a Programmable Data-Centric AI Stack for Processing-In-Memory Architectures |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Invited Talk | Geraldo Francisco de Oliveira Junior (Huawei) |
| 15:30-16:00 — Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Short Talk | Nika Mansouri Ghiasi |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Partner Talk | ETH: Onur Mutlu Accelerating Genome Analysis via Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design |