- 2015 / BSc Engineering (Hons.) in Computer Engineering / University of Peradeniya / Sri Lanka
Dr Hasindu Gamaarachchi
- 2020 / PhD in Computer Science and Engineering / 91色情片 Sydney / Australia
Hasindu Gamaarachchi is a senior lecturer at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, 91色情片 Sydney.听 He is also a in the . From 2020 to 2022, he worked as a Genomics Computing Research Scientist at Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Hasindu completed his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at 91色情片 Sydney in 2020. He has served as a lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering and a resource person at NVIDIA research centre at the University of Peradeniya.听He completed his bachelor鈥檚 degree with first-class honours in Computer Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2015.
Hasindu Gamaarachchi focuses on the design, development and optimisation of bioinformatics software and hardware for real-time sequencing data analysis; and, prototyping novel domain-specific computer systems for efficient genomics data analysis. He has more than ten years of experience in embedded computing systems, computer architecture, general-purpose computing with the use of a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), high-performance computing and low-level system programming, which he leverages for the architecture-aware design of efficient computational systems for bioinformatics. Examples of his work include: an iterative genome assembly method that uses nanopore adaptive sampling to produce near-complete genome assemblies听 (); a novel domain-specific file format for efficient nanopore data processing (); and, GPU-accelerated adaptive banded event alignment algorithm which is a core component in nanopore data analysis ().
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- 2023-2026: ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award鈥 Fast, lightweight and live nanopore sequencing analysis 鈥 (sole CI, $453,913)
- 2025-2026: NHMRC Ideas Grants 鈥 Advanced computational methods to enhance long-read sequencing in genomic medicine 鈥 (CI, $807,000)
- 2025-2029: MRFF Genomics Health Futures Mission Grants 鈥 Delivering benefit for all Australians in the new era of complete genomics 鈥 (CI, $4,990,250)
- 2023-2026: ARC Discovery Projects 鈥 Custom computing for DNA analysis of third generation sequencers 鈥 (CI, $439,110)
- 2023-2025: MRFF Genomics Health Future Mission Grants 鈥 A national long-read genome sequencing program to improve rare disease diagnosis 鈥 (CI, $2,938,900)
- 2023-2024: MRFF Genomics Health Future Mission Grants 鈥 Harnessing nanopore sequencing technology to improve diagnosis of human disease 鈥 (CI, $954,000)
- 2022-2023: MRFF Early Career Researcher Grant 鈥 Developing a long-read nanopore sequencing platform for Indigenous genomics 鈥 (CI, $986,000)
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- 2024 /听鈥淭orsten Seemann鈥 Outstanding Bioinformatics Software Developer Award 鈥 Australian Bioinformatic And Computational Biology Society (ABACBS)
- 2021 / Outstanding PhD Thesis award by Australian Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Society (ABACBS)
- 2021 / Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Theses awarded by 91色情片 Sydney
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- 2019 / Best poster award in Australasian Genomic Technologies Association (AGTA) Conference
- 2016 / C.A. Hewavitharana Prize awarded by University of Peradeniya for best performance in Engineering
- 2016 / Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) Gold Medal awarded by University of Peradeniya for best performance in Computer Engineering
- 2016 / Best presenter award in Present Around The World 2016 organised by Institution of Engineering and Technology-Young Professionals Section (IET-YPS) Sri Lanka
- 2016 / Best technical paper award in Annual Technical Conference of Institution of Engineering and Technology-Young Professionals Section (IET-YPS) Sri Lanka