About Senay Kafkas Senay Kafkas Research Scientist (former), Bio-Ontology Research Group data mining data integration information extraction named entity recognition bioinformatics 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 Articles Related News October 2023 A new approach to rare disease diagnosis 2 min read · Mon, Oct 23 2023 News bioinformatics artificial intelligence An innovative AI-based tool leverages varied symptom descriptions, along with evidence from the scientific literature and genomic datasets, to pinpoint disease-associated gene variants. May 2023 Employee service awards 2023 1 min read · Sun, May 28 2023 News Congratulations to CBRC members Prof. Stefan Arold, Krishnakumar Sivakumar, Raik Grunberg, Senay Kafkas and Salim Bougouffa who received their 2023 KAUST employee service awards. October 2022 BORG team win at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022 2 min read · Sun, Oct 16 2022 News machine learning ontology artificial intelligence GPU Congratulations to Senay Kafkas, Maxat Kulmanov and Fernando Zhapa Camacho of the Bio-Ontology Research Group (BORG) on winning at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022. The 8th edition of the Hackathon on Accelerating Scientific Applications using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) was held at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), twelve teams of students and researchers enjoyed the opportunity to accelerate their codes in GPU’s under the guidance of expert mentors of NVIDIA, Codee, KAUST Supercomputing Lab (KSL) and KAUST core labs. September 2019 Database to support infectious disease research 1 min read · Wed, Sep 11 2019 News machine learning artificial intelligence human health Computer science Linking disease pathogens to clinical signs and symptoms through a database could support research into the molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases. October 2018 National Infectious Disease Initiative Workshop brings researchers to KAUST 1 min read · Mon, Oct 8 2018 News infectious disease Representatives from the KAUST Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), King Saud University (KSU), Taibah University, National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA) and the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) met on October 1 to iron out details of a national initiative to fight infectious diseases. May 2018 BORG members to present at ISMB 2018 1 min read · Sun, May 27 2018 News Three members of the Bio-Ontology Research Group will be presenting their work at the International Society for Computational Biology conference in Chicago, U.S.A.
A new approach to rare disease diagnosis 2 min read · Mon, Oct 23 2023 News bioinformatics artificial intelligence An innovative AI-based tool leverages varied symptom descriptions, along with evidence from the scientific literature and genomic datasets, to pinpoint disease-associated gene variants.
Employee service awards 2023 1 min read · Sun, May 28 2023 News Congratulations to CBRC members Prof. Stefan Arold, Krishnakumar Sivakumar, Raik Grunberg, Senay Kafkas and Salim Bougouffa who received their 2023 KAUST employee service awards.
BORG team win at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022 2 min read · Sun, Oct 16 2022 News machine learning ontology artificial intelligence GPU Congratulations to Senay Kafkas, Maxat Kulmanov and Fernando Zhapa Camacho of the Bio-Ontology Research Group (BORG) on winning at the KAUST-NVIDIA GPU Hackathon 2022. The 8th edition of the Hackathon on Accelerating Scientific Applications using Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) was held at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), twelve teams of students and researchers enjoyed the opportunity to accelerate their codes in GPU’s under the guidance of expert mentors of NVIDIA, Codee, KAUST Supercomputing Lab (KSL) and KAUST core labs.
Database to support infectious disease research 1 min read · Wed, Sep 11 2019 News machine learning artificial intelligence human health Computer science Linking disease pathogens to clinical signs and symptoms through a database could support research into the molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases.
National Infectious Disease Initiative Workshop brings researchers to KAUST 1 min read · Mon, Oct 8 2018 News infectious disease Representatives from the KAUST Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC), King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), King Saud University (KSU), Taibah University, National Guard Health Affairs (NGHA) and the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health (MOH) met on October 1 to iron out details of a national initiative to fight infectious diseases.
BORG members to present at ISMB 2018 1 min read · Sun, May 27 2018 News Three members of the Bio-Ontology Research Group will be presenting their work at the International Society for Computational Biology conference in Chicago, U.S.A.
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