Senay Kafkas

About

Research Interests

Senay's research interests include biomedical text/data mining, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data analysis.

Scientific and Professional Membership

• ​International Society of Computational Biology (ISCB) (2010-present).

KAUST Affiliations

• Bio-Ontology Research Group (BORG).​
• Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC).
• Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE).

Education Profile

• Ph.D., Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, 2012.
• M.Sc., Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, 2005.
• B. Sc., Computer Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, 2003.

Professional Memberships

• ​2017 -present: Research Scientist, KAUST, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
• 2012-2017: Text Mining Specialist, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• 2012-2012: Postdoctoral Fellow, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• 2010-2012: Pre-doctoral research fellow, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• 2003-2010: Research Assistant, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus.

Awards and Distinctions

• ​Travel fellowship award, partly sponsored by the K.U.Leuven SymBioSys Center for Computational Systems Biology and the  BioMaGNet Network on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (BelSpo-IAP), 2010.
• Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, scholarship for Ph.D. study (2009-2010).
• Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, scholarship for Ph.D. study (2009).
• Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, scholarship for Ph.D. study (2005-Spring 2008).
• Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, scholarship for MSc study (2003-2005).
• Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus, annual grants for academic achievements in BSc study (1999-2003).
• Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, scholarship for BSc study (1999-2003).