Barış Ekim
Postdoctoral Associate
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarış Ekim is a computational biologist and postdoctoral associate with a decade of experience at the intersection of algorithms and genomics, currently based at Yale after PhD work at MIT's Computation and Biology Group. His research spans genome assembly, pangenomics, metagenomics, structural variant calling, complexity theory, and genomic privacy, blending theoretical tools like universal hitting sets with practical sequence-analysis pipelines. He has collaborated across institutions including the Broad Institute, CSAIL, and international labs, contributing to entropy-based clustering and novel algorithmic libraries tied to a new programming language effort. Comfortable moving between deep theory and applied bioinformatics, he has repeatedly translated mathematical insights into genomic software and datasets. Originally from Istanbul, he brings a multidisciplinary background in computer science, molecular biology and mathematics to tackle large-scale genomic problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Turkish, English, French, Hebrew
Github Skills (36)
minimizer10
genome10
genome-assembly10
genomics10
assembly9
bioinformatics9
french8
kebab-case8
genome-analysis8
bioconda7
naming-conventions7
esoteric-programming-language7
graph6
sequence5
esoteric-language5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ekimb/ekimb.github.io
Mar 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:259 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
ekimb/pasha
Apr 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:253 commits, 150 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
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