Harinda Rajapaksha

Harinda graduated from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka , majoring in Agricultural Biology . Then he moved to Australia for higher studies, and he holds a PhD degree in Protein Biochemistry from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He has about 20 years of experience as a Bioinformatician and a Computational Chemistry researcher. Harinda also worked as a researcher at the La Trobe University, Australia before moving to industry. In addition to being a researcher, he is an industry-seasoned data scientist and an accredited statistician with the Statistical Society of Australia. Currently he is working as a data scientist at Oracle Corporation while engage in R & D in various bioinformatics applications . Other than his research involvements,  Harinda is an aspiring musician holding qualifications in Indian classical music.