LAB BIO
At CICEKLAB, we design and develop machine learning models to improve our understanding of genetic diseases and disorders.
We work on these main tracks:
(i) Generative modeling of RNA to target other molecules,
(ii) Privacy-preserving machine learning on genomic data, and
We are a part of Bilkent University, Computer Engineering Department in Ankara, Türkiye.
Latest News
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ISMB/ECCB 2025
We attended ISMB/ECCB 2025 Conference organized in Liverpool, UK! We had two oral and one poster pr…
UCLA CGSI 2025
Ercument Cicek and our graduate student Ahmet Arda Ceylan attended UCLA - Computational Genomics Su…
Dr. Kuru is the first PhD graduate of CICEKLAB
Halil İbrahim Kuru successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis on June 4, 2025. Co-advised with Oznur Ta…
Bilkent CSFair 2025
We were part of the team who organized the Bilkent CSFair 2025 at Bilkent Hotel, Ankara. 44 groups …
CICEKLAB at RECOMB 2025 in South Korea
Masoud, Sobhan and Ercument have attended the RECOMB 2025 Conference which took place in Yonsei Uni…
UCLA CGSI 2024
Ercument Cicek and our graduate student Mehmet Alper Yılmaz attended UCLA - Computational Genomics …
New graduates from the lab
We have two new MS graduates from the lab. Gün Kaynar coauthored 3 papers in Bioinformatics (x2) an…
Ercument Cicek joins the Editorial Board of IEEE/ACM TCBB Journal as an Associate Editor
Ercument Cicek joined the Editorial Board of the IEEE/ACM Transactions in Computational Biolog…
We are coorganizing RECOMB-PRIEQ 2024
We are co-organizing a satellite event on biomedical data privacy and equity as a part of the RECOM…
CICEKLAB at RECOMB 2023
We co-organized RECOMB 2023 and RECOMB-Seq 2023 which took place in Istanbul between April 13 and 1…
We are organizing RECOMB 2023 and RECOMB-Seq 2023
Ercument is the publicity chair of RECOMB 2023 and the program co-chair of RECOMB-Seq 2023 Workshop…
We competed in the ICPC World Finals Moscow
We represented Bilkent University Computer Engineering Department and Turkey in the ICPC World Fina…
Best Paper Award - RECOMB 2021
Our paper "Robust Inference of Kinase Activity using Functional Networks" is awarded the Best …
Three new MS graduates from CICEKLAB
CICEKLAB has three new MS graduates. Kerem Ayoz, Doruk Cakmakci and Furkan Ozden have successfully&…
Three accepted highlight talks in ISMB/ECCB 2021.
CICEKLAB has three highlight talks accepted for presentation at ISMB/ECCB 2021, 2 in MLCSB track an…
Two upcoming invited talks
Ercument will give two invited talks in June 2021.First talk, "Machine learning models to predict d…
New paper in PETS
Our paper Genome Reconstruction Attacks Against Genomic Data-Sharing Beacons is accepted …
We are organizing GenoPri 2021
This year we are co-organizing Genome and Privacy Workshop (GenoPri) 2021 with Gerstein Lab at Yale…
We are organizing HIBIT 2021
This year we are organizing HIBIT 2021 symposium which will bring together 3 keynotes and 8 invited…
A. Ercüment Çiçek received Aziz Sancar Incentive Award
Ercüment Çiçek has been awarded an Aziz Sancar Incentive Award by the Health Institutes of Turkey (…
Talk at GenoPri'20
Kerem Ayoz presented our work on the protective effect of participant kinship against attacks on ge…
Talk at ECCB 2020
Kerem Ayoz gave a talk about our work on the protective effect of participant kinship against attac…
Paper in PLoS Computational Biology
Our paper on assessing tumor margins during surgery with a machine learning based techniques is acc…
Presentation at RECOMB 2020
Ercument gave a talk at RECOMB 2020 Virtual Conference new Epistasis Test Prioritization Algorithm …