Our research lab is led by Professor Mohammed Alser and is located in the beautiful city of Atlanta, Georgia. Our lab is part of the Department of Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, USA. The university is ranked 2nd best university in undergraduate teaching and 2nd most innovative university in the USA.

Our research aims to enable efficient computational genomic analyses by rethinking the complete compute stack, starting from how we handle input data and algorithms to the underlying hardware architecture. Our research incorporates several aspects of bioinformatics, computer science, and computer engineering. Bioinformatics is one of the scientific disciplines that necessitate efficient computation due to the complexity of data and problems that bioinformatics should solve timely. In bioinformatics, we develop methods and build architectures to solve biological problems. Understanding and analyzing biological data, such as genomes, is the foundation of many scientific and medical discoveries in biomedicine and other life sciences, through its rapidly growing presence in clinical medicine, outbreak tracing, and understanding of urban microbial communities. Recent pandemics reshaped the grand scale of genomic analyses around the globe and in outer space. We now need to decipher, analyze, and interpret genomes not only quickly, but also accurately and efficiently enough to scale the analysis across millions of individuals at a truly population scale.

Together we can make this a reality! We have ongoing strong collaborations with internationally recognized researchers from the University of Southern California, Pennsylvania State University, University of California Los Angeles, ETH Zurich, and Bilkent University. We always welcome new collaborations from industry and academia!

Our support

We are grateful for the generous funding from Georgia State University and the College of Arts & Sciences.

We will be hiring soon at different levels, stay tuned!

We soon will be looking for outstanding, highly-motivated PhD students from all over the world to join our team (more info will be posted)!

If you are a GSU student and are interested in doing a bachelor or master's thesis with us, or research opportunities in bioinformatics, please reach out to us at any time.