Current Position

Associate Research Scientist

Yale School of Medicine

New Haven 6520 USA

www.linkedin.com/pub/akdes-serin-harmanci/2a/5a1/4a5

Education

• February 2005 - July 2005: Computer Science and Engineering at the Vienna University of Technology (Austria), Erasmus Exchange Programme
• 2006: B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering at Sabanci University (Turkey)
• 2006 - 2007: preparatory PhD studies at the IMPRS-CBSC supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Vingron
• 2007 - 2011: PhD studies at the IMPRS-CBSC supervised by Prof. Dr. Martin Vingron
• Scholarships: Sabanci University Merit Scholarship with outstanding achievement award throughout undergraduate education, IMPRS scholarship

Dissertation

• Submitted September 2011
• Biclustering Analysis for Large Scale Data

Scientific Interests

• Statistical Pattern Recognition
• Algorithm Development
• Genome Analysis

Publications from time as IMPRS fellow

• A Prigione et al. (2011)
  Mitochondrial-associated cell death mechanisms are reset to an embryonic-like state in aged donor-derived iPS cells harboring chromosomal aberrations.
  PLoS One., 6 (11): e27352
• A Serin, M Vingron (2011)
  DeBi: Discovering differentially expressed biclusters using a frequent itemset approach.
  Algorithms Mol Biol., 6 (1): 18
• Information Propagation Along Residue Network
  B.Sc. thesis at the Sabanci University 2006