Interview with Damla Senol Cali: about her work, experience in SAFARI, and her future directions

Damla Senol Cali is a PhD student with SAFARI at CMU co-advised by Onur Mutlu and Saugata Ghose.
We recently interviewed Damla about her work, her experience as a PhD student in SAFARI, and her future directions.  Damla’s interview appears as the first video contribution to the SAFARI Meet our Members section in our January 2021 newsletter.

Watch Damla’s video interview here    |    Read the transcript here 

Damla Senol Cali, Gurpreet S. Kalsi, Zulal Bingol, Can Firtina, Lavanya Subramanian, Jeremie S. Kim, Rachata Ausavarungnirun, Mohammed Alser, Juan Gomez-Luna, Amirali Boroumand, Anant Nori, Allison Scibisz, Sreenivas Subramoney, Can Alkan, Saugata Ghose, and Onur Mutlu, GenASM: A High-Performance, Low-Power Approximate String Matching Acceleration Framework for Genome Sequence AnalysisProceedings of the 53rd International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO), Virtual, October 2020.

Full paper link | Talk Video (18 mins) | Talk Slides (pptx) (pdf) |
Lecture Video (37 mins) | Lecture Slides (pptx) (pdf) | GenASM Source Code |
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Damla Senol Cali, Jeremie Kim, Saugata Ghose, Can Alkan, and Onur Mutlu, Nanopore Sequencing Technology and Tools for Genome Assembly: Computational Analysis of the Current State, Bottlenecks and Future DirectionsBriefings in Bioinformatics (BIB), 2018.

Paper link | Paper PDF | AACBB’19 Talk Video | Slides (ppt) (pdf) |
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