Hi! I am Anuradha 😃

I am currently an Engineer at CSIRO and I got my PhD from the Australian National University (ANU), Australia. My area of research is Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. I like to do exploratory genomics research, statistical analysis, and modelling machine learning methods. But of them all, I love coding 😃.

Researcher profile at Google Scholar 🎓

📄 My PhD thesis is here 🎓

📄 My CV is available here 💻 Code for it is here

Contact Details 📱

• Email – personal: info@anuradhawick.com
• LinkedIn: anuradhawick
• BlueSky: @anuradhawick.bsky.social

I Love Research 🔬

I love doing research that is usually computationally challenging and requires novel thinking. I am an enthusiastic blogger and write about new things I learn as I do my research. Check my blog here!

I am a hobbyist DIY’er

On my free time I like to mess around with Jetson Nano, Raspberry Pi and other SOCs like Onion Omega, ESP and Arduino. ⚡️🔋

I also love doing self defined machine learning projects and compute optimisation tasks on CUDA. You’ll find most of them in my GitHub or as Gists. 👨‍💻🧠

Education 👨🏽‍🎓

• Currently an engineer at CSIRO, the national Australian research agency. I design and develop population scale systems for genomics and healthcare.
• I got my PhD from ANU, School of Computing, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australia. I spent 3.5 years in the Aussie capital, Canberra.
• I obtained my BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I was able to secure a GPA of 4+ (out of 4.2) along with several other non-academic achievements.
• I was ranked 68th all-island (4th in the entire district) in my Advanced Level examination in the physical sciences stream.

From Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 and Found Home in Australia 🇦🇺

I Love to Travel 🏝

My hometown is located in Gampaha District a small non-urban town. I grew up playing on grass and mud. I cherish those days I was playing with my brother and kids from the neighbourhood. A simple village life that wasn’t rural and definitely wasn’t urban. Even to date, I am inspired by simple livelihoods that leave plenty of time to free thought and creativity.

Now that my wife and I are in Australia, we roam around the continent whenever we have a chance.