Dr. Hasindu Gamaarachchi

Biography

Hasindu Gamaarachchi focuses on the design and development of bioinformatics software and hardware for real-time nanopore sequencing data analysis and prototyping novel domain-specific computer systems for efficient genomics data analysis. With ten years of experience in embedded computing systems and computer architecture, he specializes in general-purpose computing utilizing Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), high-performance computing, and low-level system programming. His recent works include developing a novel domain-specific file format for efficient nanopore data processing, a GPU-accelerated adaptive banded event alignment algorithm, and memory optimization techniques for nanopore sequence alignment. He has served as a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney and previously worked as a Genomics Computing Research Scientist at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. Hasindu completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science Engineering at UNSW Sydney, where his research received several accolades, including the third place in the Association for Computing Machinery Student Research Competition globally among competitors from top ACM conferences. He also holds a first-class honors Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, where he was awarded for exceptional performance in Engineering.

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