Announcing the BioPIM Workshop: Processing-in-Memory for Genomic Applications
Join us at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, on October 6–7, 2026, for a two-day workshop exploring the forefront of Processing-in-Memory
(PIM) architectures and hardware acceleration for computational genomics and data-centric computing.
The workshop is free to attend and open to the public. We warmly welcome undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, and industry professionals.
Event Details
Dates: October 6–7, 2026
Location: Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Mithat Çoruh Auditorium (EB Building)
Featured Speakers & Sessions
We are thrilled to bring together leading voices from both our BioPIM consortium partners and world-renowned invited researchers:
Invited Speakers:
Victoria Popic (Broad Institute)
Santiago Marco-Sola (Barcelona Supercomputing Center – BSC) Iman Hajirasouliha (Weill Cornell Medicine) Geraldo Francisco de Oliveira Junior (Huawei) Christina Giannoula (Max Planck Institute)
BioPIM Partner Speakers:
Can Alkan (Bilkent University)
Yoshihiro Shibuya (Institut Pasteur)
Irem Boybat (IBM)
Dominique Lavenier (CNRS)
Onur Mutlu (ETH Zürich)
Short Talks
Orhun Görkem (IBM)
Nika Mansouri-Ghiasi (ETH Zurich)
Alejandro Marin (BSC)
Arda Söylev (Necmettin Erbakan University)
The program will also feature short presentations highlighting ongoing developments across the field. We will update the schedule accordingly.
Event Details & Schedule: https://biopim.eu/events/workshop
Free Registration Form: https://forms.gle/YHYkxNvGa1oxKXCW7
Live broadcast via YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BioPIM