Can Firtina is a senior researcher in the SAFARI Research Group and a lecturer at ETH Zurich. He recently defended his PhD thesis in November 2024, advised by Prof. Onur Mutlu.His research interests broadly span bioinformatics and computer architecture topics, including real-time, accurate, fast, and energy-efficient genome analysis, hardware-software co-design for accelerating bioinformatics workloads, and developing computational tools for genome editing. His research has been published in major bioinformatics and computer architecture venues.