Postdoctoral researcher at the Umeå Plant Science Centre (UPSC), Umeå University. Dual PhD in Mathematics (graph theory, metric dimension) and Computer Science (information security, formal verification). Work crosses combinatorial structure, formal methods, and bioinformatics.
📍 Umeå, Sweden · ✉️ ehsan.estaji@umu.se
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Building PlantGraph — a knowledge-graph platform for plant genomics and the published literature, focused on Arabidopsis and related species, integrating 100+ data sources.
Adjacent research, with manuscripts in preparation, on resolving-set coordinates for genome graphs, chromosome-scale pangenome ingest, semantic validation of alignment formats, and trust-boundary auditing of bioinformatics tools.
| Year | Title | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Relational biological structure improves fine-mapping of causal GWAS variants under weak signal | bioRxiv (preprint) |
| 2026 | GraphPop: graph-native computation decouples population genomics complexity from sample count | bioRxiv (preprint) |
| 2026 | GraphMana: graph-native data management for population genomics projects | bioRxiv (preprint) |
| 2023 | Machine-checked proofs of privacy against malicious boards for Selene & Co | Journal of Computer Security 31(5), 469–499 |
| 2020 | Revisiting practical and usable coercion-resistant remote e-voting | E-Vote-ID, LNCS, Springer |
| 2019 | Moore–Penrose inverse of incidence matrix of graphs with complete and cyclic blocks | Discrete Mathematics 342(1), 10–17 |
| 2019 | Metric properties of generalized Sierpiński graphs over stars | Discrete Applied Mathematics 266, 48–55 |
| 2017 | The strong metric dimension of generalized Sierpinski graphs with pendant vertices | Ars Mathematica Contemporanea 12(1), 127–134 |
Full list → Google Scholar
FastaGuard — fast, explainable FASTA
QC for assembly files. Rust. The preflight layer that runs before QUAST / BUSCO /
BlobToolKit. Distributed on bioconda: mamba install -c bioconda fastaguard.
Most other research code lives in private repositories until the accompanying papers are public. Preprints and supplementary code releases are linked from Google Scholar and ORCID as they appear.