Shamith Samarajiwa
Academic Experience (Australia & UK) at Imperial College London
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolShamith Samarajiwa is a computational biologist and genomicist with nine years of focused academic experience across Australia and the UK, now an Associate Professor in Genomics at Imperial College London. He combines early training in computing and software engineering with a PhD in Molecular Immunology and Computational Genomics to develop computational and AI-driven methods for understanding transcriptional and epigenomic regulation in immunity, ageing, metabolic disease and cancer. He has built and led bioinformatics groups from first principles—establishing the inaugural bioinformatics unit at Monash Institute and later founding a computational cancer biology group at Cambridge—bridging wet-lab models and large-scale sequencing analysis. His work emphasizes enhancer–promoter logic, TF target discovery and early cancer detection, and he directs the forthcoming MSc in Computational Biomedicine. Less obvious is his sustained commitment to education and reproducible genomics: he has designed and taught numerous courses and supervised students across multiple institutions while co-organising reproducibility workshops.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computing & Data Analytics, Computing & Data Analytics at Institute of Data ManagementThe University of MelbournePhD , Molecular Immunology & Computational Genomics, PhD , Molecular Immunology & Computational Genomics at Monash University
Github Skills (4)
rna-seq9
bioinformatics9
chip-seq8
pubmed5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bioinformatics-core-shared-training/cruk-summer-school-2019
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Summer School 2019 - Functional Genomics
Contributions:63 commits, 43 pushes in 3 months
summerschoolbioinformaticscruk
ss-lab-cancerunit/pangaea
Apr 2020 - Jul 2024
Tool for retrieving gene interactions from PubMed https://pangaea-tool.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 3 months
bioinformaticsgeneinteractionspubmed
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