Dr. Kucukural designs and implements reusable, robust and production grade bioinformatics analysis pipelines and pipeline generation tools for processing next-generation sequencing data. He mainly works on NGS data analysis and visualization for RNA-Seq, RIP-Seq, Chip-Seq, ATAC-Seq, CLIP-Seq, and derivatives. He implemented a wide variety of tools and applications from protein fold prediction, to molecular docking, differential gene expression, and peak calling algorithms to reduce the noise caused by experimental and alignment biases especially for RIP and CLIP-Seq data. He is currently co-director of Bioinformatics Core and Associate Professor in Molecular Medicine at UMass Medical School.