Mithunjha Anandakumar

Hi! I’m Mithunjha Anandakumar, a second-year Ph.D. student in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, advised by Dr. Fan Lam. My research focuses on multimodal biochemical analysis of the brain, leveraging computational methods to enhance our understanding of its biochemical mapping of the brain.

I was a joint post-baccalaureate research fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. My research involved developing deep learning algorithms to reconstruct microscopic images with Dr. Dushan Wadduwage, Wadduwage Lab, Harvard University and protein structure generation with of Dr. Sergey Ovchinnikov, SO lab, Harvard University.

I received my bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from Department of Electronic and Telecommication, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2022. I completed my thesis on “Interpretable multi-modal sleep monitoring system using Ear EEG and EOG” with Dr. Anjula De Silva, University of Moratuwa, Dr. Chamira Edussooriya, University of Moratuwa and Dr. Simon Lind Kappel, Aarhus University. I gained industry experience as a trainee biomedical research engineer at Zone24x7, developing biosignal processing algorithms to extract Breathing Rate (BR) from ECG and PPG.

I aspire to work towards developing cutting-edge machine learning methods for advancing medicine and healthcare. I have a keen interest in Medical Imaging, Deep Learning, and Biosignal Processing.