GAYAR

Generative AI & Multimodal Biomedical Engineering

GAYAR Research Group brings together researchers from different disciplines to study biological and biomedical problems through generative AI and multimodal biomedical engineering, including systems biology and medical image and signal processing.

Faculty of Engineering · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Eastern Mediterranean University

Why GAYAR exists

Based at Eastern Mediterranean University and open to contributors beyond EMU, the group focuses on practical, interdisciplinary research and meaningful scientific contribution.

Research scope

Research areas

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Generative AI for Biology

Develop and apply generative and predictive models to biological data, including molecular structures, genomic information, biological sequences, and multimodal biological representations.

Multimodal biological models

Multimodal fusion

Protein engineering

AI-based drug discovery

AI-based disease modeling

Research in progress

Selected projects

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Project 01

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Systems Biology · Generative AI for Biology

Graph-to-Image Modeling of SMN2 Drug Response

Originating from Kiana Mahtabi Nourani’s EENG538 project, this work studies how the sequence space of 285 engineered SMN2 exon-7 5′ splice-site variants can be represented computationally while keeping drug-response information out of the representation itself. The current study uses a response-independent sequence graph and two-dimensional compression to test which sequence and published-motif structure survives spatialization, while explicitly evaluating the stability and limitations of the representation.

LeadKiana Mahtabi Nourani

ParticipantsKiana Mahtabi Nourani, Prof. Dr. Hasan Demirel, Ali Farrokhnejad, Morteza Farrokhnejad

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Purpose and direction

Vision, mission, and long-term goal

Vision

To create an inclusive and innovative research environment where students can transform biological data into scientific discoveries through artificial intelligence, computational biology, open science, and collaborative learning, while contributing meaningful solutions to global health challenges.

Mission

To conduct interdisciplinary research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and computational biology, provide practical research training for students, promote open and reproducible science, and develop computational tools that advance biomedical discovery.

Future goal

Creating a sustainable hub where artificial intelligence, biology, and education converge for scientific research.

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Portrait of Prof. Dr. Hasan Demirel

Prof. Dr. Hasan Demirel

Director · Academic Supervisor

Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University

  • Artificial intelligence and machine learning
  • Digital image and video processing
  • Biomedical image processing / medical imaging AI
  • Pattern recognition and computer vision
Portrait of Kiana Mahtabi Nourani

Kiana Mahtabi Nourani

Founder · Research Team Member

M.Sc. student, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University

  • Generative AI for computational biology
  • Disease modeling
  • Systems biology

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Introducing GAYAR

GAYAR Research Group brings together researchers working across generative AI, computational biology, systems biology, and multimodal biomedical engineering.

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