Schedule

Date Sunday, 24 May 2026
09:25-09:30

Welcome Remarks

10:30-10:50
Talk 1

KENT: Fast Pathogen Screening with NVIDIA Jetson Cluster in Resource-Constrained Areas

Arda İçöz, Ricardo Roman-Brenes, Zülal Bingöl and Can Alkan

10:50-11:10
Talk 2

Helicase: Vectorized Parsing and Bitpacking of Genomic Sequences

Igor Martayan, Loup Lobet, Camille Marchet and Charles Paperman

11:10-11:30

Poster Lightning Talks

See accepted posters below.

11:30-13:00

Poster Session and Lunch

14:00-14:20
Talk 3

In-Depth Data Movement Characterization of DNA Read Mapping Algorithms

Berkan Şahin, Ecem İlgün, Klea Zambaku, Ömer Yavuz Öztürk and Can Alkan

14:20-14:40
Talk 4

AutoFFinder: A Reconfigurable Hardware-Accelerated Platform for Multi-Guide CRISPR/Cas9 Off-Target Search

Ofir Yaish, Tommy Tracy, Kevin Skadron and Yaron Orenstein

14:40-14:50

Closing Remarks

Accepted Posters

Poster Title Authors
1 POACHA: Partial Order Alignment Computation Hardware Acceleration Zeynep Akcil, Berkan Şahin, Toygar Tanriverdi, Zülal Bingöl and Can Alkan
2 Hardware-Portable Fused GPU Kernels for High-Throughput Biological Foundation Models Manpreet Singh
3 TAGMa: A Topology-Aware Software/Hardware Co-Designed Graph-Based Genome Analysis Accelerator Irini Maria Tzermpou, Konstantina Koliogeorgi, Akmuhammet Ashyralyyev, Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Anastassis Kapetanakis, Aggelos Ferikoglou, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Sotirios Xydis, Dimitrios Soudris and Onur Mutlu
4 A Heterogeneous Architecture for Whole-Chromosome Sequence Alignment Acceleration Oscar Lostes-Cazorla, David Blasco, Alvaro Moreno, Max Doblas, Miquel Moreto and Santiago Marco-Sola
5 Acceleration of an Optimal Sequence Alignment Library Using RISC-V Custom Instructions David Blasco, Max Doblas, Juan Carlos Moure, Miquel Moreto and Santiago Marco-Sola
6 Storage-Centric System Designs for Enabling Fast, Efficient, and Low-Cost Genomic and Metagenomic Analyses Nika Mansouri Ghiasi and Onur Mutlu
7 Processing-In-Memory Acceleration of Raw Signal Genome Analysis Inside the Storage Subsystem Konstantina Koliogeorgi, Melina Soysal, Can Firtina, Nika Mansouri Ghiasi, Rakesh Nadig, Haiyu Mao, Geraldo F. Oliveira, Yu Liang, Klea Zambaku, Mohammad Sadrosadati and Onur Mutlu