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 An alignment-last approach enables rapid transcriptomic biomarker discovery in
large cohorts 2026 · preprint
Erkan Narmanli , Alexandre Lanau, Mara Neacsu, Mariia K. Koshkina,
Pierre Fumeron, Philippe Martin, Nicolas Servant, Nicolas Perrin-Gilbert, Joshua J.
Waterfall.
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.