PhD Defense: Optimizing the accuracy of lightweight methods for short read alignment and quantification
Mohsen Zakeri
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Bio
Mohsen joined the PhD program at Stony Brook University in 2015 and then moved to the University of Maryland in 2019. He is mainly interested in working on problems related to sequence indexing, alignment, and quantification. During graduate school, he has been a member of Combine-lab where he has worked with Prof. Rob Patro and contributed to a variety of research projects regarding improving the performance of the RNA-seq quantification pipeline.
This talk is organized by Tom Hurst