Can Firtina

Assistant Professor · Department of Computer Science

University of Maryland, College Park · United States

Bioinformatics and Computational BiologySystemsNetworkingand ArchitectureMachine Learning and Data Science

About

Can Firtina is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and an affiliate faculty at UMIACS at the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), where he leads the STORM Research Group. He received his PhD from ETH Zurich in 2025, where he was advised by Professor Onur Mutlu. His doctoral thesis was awarded the ETH Medal. His research spans a broad range of problems that address the computational challenges in biological data analysis. Specifically, he is interested in designing new algorithms, AI/ML methods, and specialized computing systems that use emerging computing paradigms and memory technologies to enable fast, accurate, energy-efficient, and real-time analysis of genomic data. His research has been published in major bioinformatics and computer architecture venues

Education

PhD, ETH Zurich, 2025

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