S. Cenk Sahinalp

About

Important note: Graduate students interested in joining Sahinalp group should first send an email to cenk [dot] sahinalp [-at-] nih [dot] gov S. Cenk Sahinalp received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park. His Ph.D. research was on parallel and serial algorithms for string/sequence processing. After a brief postdoctoral fellowship at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, he has worked as a Computer Science professor, most recently at Indiana University, Bloomington. Sahinalp’s research has focused on combinatorial algorithms and data structures (especially for strings/sequences) and their applications to biomolecular sequence analysis, especially in the context of cancer. In the past deca

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park
• B .Sc. Electrical Engineering, Bilkent University