Welcome! I'm Ilyes Baali

I completed my PhD at the Tri-I Computational Biology and Medicine program at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, supervised by Quaid Morris, and I continue to work in the Morris Lab.

I am interested in the application of machine learning methods to functional genomics, particularly in understanding post-transcriptional regulation. My work improves the prediction of cellular binding sites of RNA-binding proteins by integrating both in vivo and in vitro data using a recalibration framework. I am also interested in developing genomic foundation models. Other than that, I collaborate with Michael Kharas' lab to understand the role of MSI2-RBP in AML.

Previously, I completed my BSc and MSc at Antalya Bilim University in Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Engineering, under the supervision of Hilal Kazan.