Academic research
My work spans two fields. Enumerative combinatorics was the subject of my PhD. Machine
learning applied to cancer genomics has occupied me since 2022.
Articles
Γ-VAE: Curvature regularized variational autoencoders for uncovering emergent low
dimensional geometric structure in high dimensional data
2024 · preprint
Jason Z. Kim, Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert, Erkan Narmanli, Paul Klein,
Christopher R. Myers, Itai Cohen, Joshua J. Waterfall, James P. Sethna.
On the enumeration of plane bipolar posets and transversal structures
2024 · European Journal of Combinatorics
Erkan Narmanli, Éric Fusy, Gilles Schaeffer. Extended abstract
published at EuroComb'21.
Multi-omics comparison of malignant and normal uveal melanocytes reveals molecular
features of uveal melanoma
2023 · Cell Reports
David Gentien, Elnaz Saberi-Ansari, …, Erkan Narmanli, …, Sergio
Roman-Roman, Joshua J. Waterfall.
Enumeration of corner polyhedra and 3-connected Schnyder labelings
2023 · Electronic Journal of Combinatorics
Erkan Narmanli, Éric Fusy, Gilles Schaeffer. Extended abstract
published at FPSAC'22.
Talks
Counting planar maps linked to corner polyhedra
June 2023 · Bordeaux · national conference
Counting planar maps linked to corner polyhedra
July 2022 · Bangalore · international conference
Decorated maps and quadrant tandem walks
April 2022 · Bordeaux · working group
On the enumeration of plane bipolar posets and transversal structures
April 2022 · Marseille · national conference
Decorated maps and quadrant tandem walks
December 2021 · Paris · working group
On the enumeration of plane bipolar posets and transversal structures
September 2021 · Barcelona · European conference
Research internships
At Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
2019 · Barcelona
Research internship in combinatorics on chordal graphs and maps, supervised by Marc
Noy.
At École Polytechnique
2018 · Palaiseau
Research internship in combinatorics on the peeling of planar maps, at the LIX,
supervised by Gilles Schaeffer.
Dissertations
Épluchage des bois de Schnyder et des structures transverses
2018 · master's in pure mathematics, Jussieu
Supervised by Gilles Schaeffer. Written in French.
Jacobienne de graphes aléatoires
2016 · first year of master's, École normale supérieure
With Ludovic Stephan, supervised by Omid Amini. Written in French.
Absence de percolation au point critique dans une tranche
2015 · final year of bachelor's, École normale supérieure
With Martin Pépin, supervised by Raphaël Cerf. Written in French.
La fonction zêta de Riemann et la répartition des nombres premiers
2014 · Jussieu, for the ENS entrance examinations
Supervised by Samuel Baumard. Written in French.