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Author: saberhq

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+title: "About me"
+---
+
+{{< avatar src="/saberhq_profile.jpeg" alt="Portrait of Saber Hafezqorani" size="160" >}}
+
+Welcome!
+
+My name is Saber. I’m a Research Scientist with 12 years of experience in genomics, data science, and machine learning. I earned my Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at the University of British Columbia (UBC), where I was advised by [Prof. Dr. Inanc Birol](https://www.bcgsc.ca/people/inanc-birol), working at the [Bioinformatics Technology Lab](https://www.birollab.ca/). During my Ph.D., I broadly worked on developing computational tools and software solutions for next-generation sequencing technologies. My doctoral dissertation (see [here](https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0444844)) was focused on utilizing machine learning in transcriptome analysis. I am passionate about contributing to the understanding, controlling, and training of foundation models for biology.
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+Before starting at UBC, I received my M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from [METU](https://ii.metu.edu.tr/), where I was advised by Dr. Hilal Kazan and Dr. Yesim Aydin Son. My B.Sc. was in Information Technology Engineering.
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+I share updates on my research work as blog posts on this site. And over at The Attention - my frequentish-ly newsletter 😃 - I share the latest news on research and development in the machine learning and AI field and insights from across the web on creative entrepreneurship and productivity. Sign up [here](https://newsletter.saberhq.com/) to join a growing community of friendly readers. ❤️
+
+## Recent news
+July 2024: Defended my Ph.D. dissertation and graduated from the University of British Columbia.
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+June 2024: The LRGASP research is published in Nature Methods.
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+May 2024: ntEmbd is available on BioRxiv.
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+June 2023: Presented ntEmbd at the ISMB/ECCB conference in Lyon, France.
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+May 2023: RNA-Bloom2 is published in Nature Communications.
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+March 2023: Meta-NanoSim is published in GigaScience.
+
+## Research
+For the most updated and full list of publications, please visit my [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q2fsO2IAAAAJ&hl=en).
+
+ntEmbd: deep learning embedding for nucleotide sequences  
+Hafezqorani et al. BioRxiv, 2024  
+https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11092672/
+
+Systematic assessment of long-read RNA-seq methods for transcript identification and quantification  
+LRGASP Consortium, et al. Nature Methods, 2024  
+https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02298-3
+
+Reference-free assembly of long-read transcriptome sequencing data with RNA-Bloom2  
+Nip, Hafezqorani et al. Nature Communications, 2023  
+https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38553-y
+
+Characterization and simulation of metagenomic nanopore sequencing data with Meta-NanoSim  
+Yang, Lo, Nip, Hafezqorani et al. GigaScience, 2023  
+https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad013
+
+RNA-Scoop: interactive visualization of transcripts in single-cell transcriptomes.  
+Stephenson, Nip, Hafezqorani et al. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, 2021  
+https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqab105
+
+Trans-NanoSim characterizes and simulates nanopore RNA-seq data  
+Hafezqorani et al. GigaScience, 2020  
+https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaa061
+
+RBPSponge: genome-wide identification of lncRNAs that sponge RBPs  
+Hafezqorani et al. Bioinformatics, 2019  
+https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btz448
+
+Predicting clinical outcomes in neuroblastoma with genomic data integration  
+Baali, Acar, Aderinwale, Hafezqorani et al. Biology Direct, 2018  
+https://doi.org/10.1186/s13062-018-0223-8
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+Modeling the combined effect of RNA-binding proteins and microRNAs in post-transcriptional regulation  
+Hafezqorani et al. Nucleic Acids Research, 2016  
+https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw048
+
+## Selected Talks & Presentations
+ISMB / ECCB (MLCSB COSI) - Lyon, France - 2023 | ntEmbd (first author)
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+Genome Informatics - Virtual - 2021 | ntEmbd (first author)
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+ISMB (Microbiome COSI) - Virtual - 2020 | Meta-NanoSim (co-author)
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+ISMB (BioVis COSI) - Virtual - 2020 | RNA-Scoop (co-author)
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+ISMB / ECCB (HiTSeq COSI) - Basel, Switzerland - 2019 | Trans-NanoSim (first author)
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+ISMB / ECCB (RNA COSI) - Basel, Switzerland - 2019 | RNA-Bloom (co-author)
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+Genome Informatics - Cambridge, United Kingdom - 2018 | Trans-NanoSim (first author)
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+HIBIT - Antalya, Turkey - 2018 | Trans-NanoSim (first author)
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+ISMB / ECCB (RNA COSI) - Prague, Czech Republic - 2017 | RBPSponge (first author)
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+ISMB / ECCB (CAMDA COSI) - Prague, Czech Republic - 2017 | Neuroblastoma (first author)
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+FEBS - Kusadasi, Turkey - 2016 | APA in lung squamous cell carcinoma (first author)
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+ISMB / ECCB (RNA COSI) - Dublin, Ireland - 2015 | RBP-mediated regulation in cancer (first author)

layouts/shortcodes/avatar.html

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+{{/*
+  avatar shortcode
+  Usage: {{< avatar src="/saberhq_profile.jpeg" alt="Portrait" size="160" >}}
+*/}}
+{{ $src := .Get "src" }}
+{{ $alt := .Get "alt" | default "" }}
+{{ $size := .Get "size" | default "160" }}
+<img
+  src="{{ $src }}"
+  alt="{{ $alt }}"
+  style="width: {{ $size }}px; height: {{ $size }}px; border-radius: 50%; object-fit: cover; display: block; margin: 0 auto 1rem;"
+  loading="lazy"
+  decoding="async"
+>
+