Roman Sarrazin Gendron

Assistant Professor,
Université du Québec à Montréal

E-mail: sarrazin_gendron.roman@uqam.ca
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Education

PhD Computer Science (McGill), 2024; Master's in Computer Science (McGill), 2019; BSc in Computer Science and Biology (McGill), 2016.


Research

My researches lives at the intersection between bioinformatics, computer science and human computing. I am interested in how humans solve problems, how human intelligence can synergize with artificial intelligence, and how serious games can help humans. Most of my work is applied on RNA structure and/or human microbiome data.

Prizes and honours

Best Micro-Talk, Riboclub Annual Meeting, 2023




Publications

11- Learning the Game: Decoding the Differences between Novice and Expert Players in a Citizen Science Game with Millions of Players
Conference Proceeding Conference Paper
Cai E , Sarrazin-Gendron R , Mutalova R , Ghasemloo Gheidari P , Butyaev A , Richard G , Caisse S , Knight R , Blanchette M , Szantner A , Waldispühl J ,
2024 ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

10- Classification and Identification of Non-canonical Base Pairs and Structural Motifs
Book Chapter
Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Waldispühl, J, Reinharz, V
Methods in Molecular Biology (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

9- Modeling and Predicting RNA Three-Dimensional Structures
Book Chapter
Reinharz, V, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Waldispühl, J
Methods in Molecular Biology (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

8- PERFUMES: pipeline to extract RNA functional motifs and exposed structures
Journal Article
Chol, A, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Lecuyer, E, Blanchette, M, Waldispuhl, JÃ
Bioinformatics (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

7- Finding recurrent RNA structural networks with fast maximal common subgraphs of edge-colored graphs
Journal Article
Soulé, A, Reinharz, V, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Denise, A, Waldispühl, J
PLoS Computational Biology (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

6- Learning the Game: Decoding the Differences between Novice and Expert Players in a Citizen Science Game with Millions of Players
Conference Article
Cai, E, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Mutalova, R, Ghasemloo Gheidari, P, Butyaev, A, Richard, G, Caisse, S, Knight, R, Blanchette, M, Szantner, A, Waldispühl, J
ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

5- Playing the System: Can Puzzle Players Teach us How to Solve Hard Problems?
Conference Article
Mutalova, R, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Cai, E, Richard, G, Ghasemloo Gheidari, P, Caisse, S, Knight, R, Blanchette, M, Szantner, A, Waldispühl, J
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

4- When online citizen science meets teaching: Storyfication of a science discovery game to teach, learn, and contribute to genomic research
Journal Article
Drogaris, C, Butyaev, A, Nazarova, E, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Patel, H, Singh, A, Kadota, B, Waldispühl, J
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

3- Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a mass-market video game
Journal Article
Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Ghasemloo Gheidari, P, Butyaev, A, Keding, T, Cai, E, Zheng, J, Mutalova, R, Mounthanyvong, J, Zhu, Y, Nazarova, E, Drogaris, C, Erhart, K, Saintélien, L, Prince, S, Najjab, D, Moreau-Genest, J, Kim, S, Huot, J, Hewitt, D, Hebert, S, Fiset, V, Falaise, M, Davidson, J, Bouffard, M, Bélanger, D, Brouillette, A, Richard, G, Pitchford, R, Caisse, S, Blanchette, M, McDonald, D, Knight, R, Szantner, A, Waldispühl, J
Nature Biotechnology (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

2- Player-Guided AI outperforms standard AI in Sequence Alignment Puzzles
Conference Article
Mutalova, R, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Gheidari, PG, Cai, E, Richard, G, Caisse, S, Knight, R, Blanchette, M, Szantner, A, Waldispühl, J
Proceedings of the ACM Collective Intelligence Conference, CI 2023 (Date Added: 2025-07-29)

1- ARGV: 3D genome structure exploration using augmented reality
Journal Article
Drogaris, C, Zhang, Y, Zhang, E, Nazarova, E, Sarrazin-Gendron, R, Wilhelm-Landry, S, Cyr, Y, Majewski, J, Blanchette, M, Waldispühl, J
BMC Bioinformatics (Date Added: 2025-07-29)