Talks

I love sharing ideas on how AI is reshaping biology and drug discovery, from research venues to industry stages. Here are some of my talks and posters. 🎤

🎤 Invited Talks
Invited TalkOctober 2026
Scaling AI across Pharma R&D
Invited TalkJune 2026
AI in Biotech: Accelerating Drug Discovery & Development
Invited TalkOctober 2025
AI's Impact on the Future of Biotechnology
Invited Talk2025
How AI Is Transforming Value Creation in Biotech
Invited Talk2024
AI Applications in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industry
🗣️ Conference Talks
Paper Presentation2025
Multimodal Modeling of CRISPR-Cas12 Activity Using Foundation Models and Chromatin Accessibility Data
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Yanfei Zhang, Artem Moskalev, Sowmya Rajesh, Tommaso Mansi, Shuwei Li, Mangal Prakash, Rui Liao
ICML 2025, Vancouver
Talk2018
POSTIT: Multi-task learning to infer transcript isoform regulation from epigenomics and transcriptomics data
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Marcel H. Schulz
Talk2016
Why asking for miRNA-gene interactions is wrong: A new paradigm for miRNA target prediction with expression data
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Marcel H. Schulz
Talk2016
Multitask regression for context-specific prioritization of miRNA targets in transcripts
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Marcel H. Schulz
German Conference on Bioinformatics 2016 and RECOMB-CCB 2016
📌 Posters
Poster2018
POSTIT: Multi-task learning to infer transcript isoform regulation from epigenomics and transcriptomics data
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Marcel H. Schulz
Poster2018
Inferring Gene Regulatory Programs with Mixtures of Sparse Multi-Task Regression Models
Tobias Heinen, Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Florian Schmidt, Marcel H. Schulz
Poster2015
Gene structure aware method for miRNA target prediction reveals two prevalent genome-wide mechanisms for miRNA action
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Marcel H. Schulz
The Non-Coding Genome 2015, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Poster2015
On the power of RNA-seq for predicting miRNA-transcript interactions
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Marcel H. Schulz
ISMB/ECCB 2015, Dublin, Ireland
Poster2014
Exploiting RNA-Seq data to the fullest: Models for miRNA-transcript target interactions
Azim Dehghani Amirabad, Marcel H. Schulz
ECCB 2014, Strasbourg, France