We are pleased to welcome Mees Frensel as the newest member of the CC Chair! Mees completed his master’s degree in Computer Engineering at TU Delft in 2024. His thesis, supervised by Prof. Zaid Al-Ars, focused on efficient, high-throughput nanopore DNA base-calling. He used model compression techniques, such as pruning, to reduce the size of an LSTM-based deep learning model without compromising accuracy. With expertise in DNA sequence analysis pipelines, Mees will be working on the genomICs project, led by Asif Khan, that aims to accelerate sequence analysis pipelines using emerging near-memory and in-memory computing architectures. We are excited to have Mees on board and look forward to working with him!