Rakitha Beminiwattha
Associate Professor
Ruston, Louisiana, United States
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Top SchoolRakitha Beminiwattha is an Associate Professor of Physics at Louisiana Tech University with 12 years of experience in experimental nuclear and particle physics, specializing in precision tests of the Standard Model, searches for new physics, and the EMC effect. He brings deep hands-on expertise in DAQ, triggering, detector development, and simulation (Geant4, FLUKA), honed through leadership roles on Qweak, PREX and SoLID experiments at Jefferson Lab. Trained at Ohio University and the University of Peradeniya, he combines strong programming and data-analysis skills (C/C++, ROOT, MySQL, scripting) with practical electronics experience (NIM, VME, CAMAC). Known for optimizing experimental setups to reduce backgrounds, he also applies HPC and big-data methods from XSEDE workshops to complex physics datasets.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Physical Science; Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 3.5, B.Sc, Physical Science; Physics, Pure and Applied Mathematics, 3.5 at University of PeradeniyaData Science, Data Science at CourseraGCE A/L, Physical Sciences, GCE A/L, Physical Sciences at Dharmaraja College, KandyPh. D (physics), Nuclear and Particle Physics; Experimental particle physics, Ph. D (physics), Nuclear and Particle Physics; Experimental particle physics at Ohio UniversityDiploma, Trigger and Data Acquisition in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Winter School, Diploma, Trigger and Data Acquisition in Nuclear and Particle Physics, Winter School at International School of Trigger and Data AcquisitionXSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA, Data Science, XSEDE HPC Workshop: BIG DATA, Data Science at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
English, Sinhala
Github Skills (21)
simulation10
simulations10
parity10
physics10
kotlin9
android-app9
java8
android7
nextcloud7
open-source5
tla4
mobile4
bengali4
querying3
analyzer3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
JeffersonLab/remoll_solid
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:52 pushes in 2 years 1 month
sbujlab/remoll_polar
Sep 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:5 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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