Vijini G. Mallawaarachchi
Research Fellow in Bioinformatics
Hi, I am Vijini Mallawaarachchi. I am a researcher, a hodophile, and a blogger working at the intersection of computer science and microbial genomics. I develop computational methods and tools to explore complex biological data while sharing my research and other interests through writing.
My Erdös Number is 4.
Who I Am
I am a bioinformatics researcher currently based in Adelaide, Australia. This site collects my research, software, publications, achievements, and writing.
I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the ANU Computational Genomics Group at the Australian National University, and my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Interests
I enjoy developing algorithms, writing code, reading, blogging, photography, music, art, nature, and travel. I started writing online to share technical ideas and connect with people interested in science and computing.
Check out my other blogs as well: Viji's Notes, The Arachchi Style and Medium.
Current Work
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration. My work focuses on algorithms and computational models to recover genomes from metagenomes.
Along the way, I have also explored computational geometry, algorithm optimisation, distributed systems, image processing, computer vision, machine/deep learning, web development, web analytics and other areas of computer science and software engineering to come up with solutions to solve biological problems.
Beyond Research
I love computer science and technology, and I am fond of music, arts, nature, photography, travelling, reading, and writing.
I share research, findings, and interests through my blog and on Medium, with more technical work collected in the research, software, and publications sections.
In loving memory of our dear PhD supervisor Dr. Yu Lin
