Mithunjha Anandakumar

Joint Post Baccalaureate Fellow, Harvard University

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Northwest Building, 147

52 Oxford Street

Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Hi there! My name is Mithunjha Anandakumar. I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Bioengineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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 keen interest on Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Medical Imaging, and Biosignal Processing.

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Sep 13, 2023 Our paper titled “DEEP-squared : Deep Learning Powered De-scattering with Excitation Patterning” has been accepted and published in Nature Light : Science and applications.
Aug 21, 2023 Starting my PhD in Bioengineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Jun 29, 2023 Act as a manuscript reviewer for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
Jun 1, 2023 Our paper titled “A Knowledge Distillation Framework For Enhancing Ear-EEG Based Sleep Staging With Scalp-EEG Data” has been accepted for presentation at IEEE SMC 2023.
Oct 27, 2022 Our preprint titled “A Knowledge Distillation Framework For Enhancing Ear-EEG Based Sleep Staging With Scalp-EEG Data” released.
Oct 21, 2022 Our preprint titled “DEEP^2: Deep Learning Powered De-scattering with Excitation Patterning” released.
Sep 14, 2022 Presented my final year thesis project to the Center for Ear EEG at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Aug 23, 2022 Served as an invited reviewer at ECCV 2022: L2ID Workshop.
Aug 14, 2022 Our preprint titled “Towards Interpretable Sleep Stage Classification Using Cross-Modal Transformers” released.
Jul 1, 2022 Joined Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University as a Post Baccalaureate Fellow.

selected publications

  1. A Knowledge Distillation Framework For Enhancing Ear-EEG Based Sleep Staging With Scalp-EEG Data
    Mithunjha Anandakumar*, Jathurshan Pradeepkumar*, Simon L Kappel, Chamira US Edussooriya, and 1 more author
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.02638 2022
  2. Towards Interpretable Sleep Stage Classification Using Cross-Modal Transformers
    Jathurshan Pradeepkumar*, Mithunjha Anandakumar*, Vinith Kugathasan, Dhinesh Suntharalingham, and 3 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.06991 2022
  3. DEEP-squared: Deep Learning Powered De-scattering with Excitation Patterning
    Navodini Wijethilake*, Mithunjha Anandakumar*, Cheng Zheng, Peter T. C. So, and 2 more authors
    Nature LSA: Light - science and applications 2023
  4. Decoding of Hand Gestures from Electrocorticography with LSTM Based Deep Neural Network
    Jathurshan Pradeepkumar, Mithunjha Anandakumar, Vinith Kugathasan, Thilina D Lalitharatne, and 2 more authors
    2021