Indika Rajapakse, PhD

 Indika Rajapakse
Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School
Professor of Mathematics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Medical School and College of Engineering
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[email protected]
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Indika Rajapakse, PhD
Indika Rajapakse
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    • Qualifications
    • Postdoctoral Fellow
      Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Genome Cell Biology, Seattle, United States
      2009 - 2012
    • Postdoctoral Fellow
      Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Genome Cell Biology, Seattle, United States
      2007 - 2009
    • Postdoctoral Fellow
      Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Genome Cell Biology, Seattle, United States
      2006 - 2007
    • Postdoctoral Fellow
      Los Alamos National Laboratory, Applied Mathematics, Los Alamos, United States
      2005 - 2006
    • PhD
      Washington State University, Pullman, Pullman, Washington, United States
      2000 - 2004
    • BSc
      University of Moratuwa (Chancellor: Sir Arthur C. Clarke), Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
      1993 - 1997

    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Center for Global Health Equity
    • Center Member
      Rogel Cancer Center
    • Center Member
      Biosciences Initiative

    Research Overview

    Biology: Cell Reprogramming and Digital Biology. Mathematics: Data-guided Learning and Control of Higher Order Structures and Mathematics of Synchronization.

    Links
    • Rajapakse Lab

    Recent Publications

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    • Preprint
      Transcriptional landscape of direct reprogramming toward the hematopoietic lineage.
      Cwycyshyn J, Stansbury C, Golts S, Lee H, Pickard J, Meixner W, Rajapakse I, Muir LA. 2026 Jul 22; DOI:10.1101/2024.08.26.609589
      PMID: 42539214
    • Preprint
      Global analysis of the Kuramoto flow
      Burns D, Malajovich G, Pugh C, Rajapakse I, Smale S. 2026 May 26; arXiv, DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2605.22983
    • Preprint
      ARCH3D: A foundation model for global genome architecture
      Galioto N, Stansbury C, Gorodetsky AA, Rajapakse I. 2026 Feb 27; bioRxiv, DOI:10.64898/2026.02.23.707580
    • Journal Article
      Dynamic sensor selection for biomarker discovery.
      Pickard J, Stansbury C, Surana A, Muir L, Bloch A, Rajapakse I. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2025 Oct 14; 122 (41): e2501324122 DOI:10.1073/pnas.2501324122
      PMID: PMC12541339
    • Journal Article
      Apropos the long-lost letter from Levinson to Smale, now found!
      Rajapakse I, Koiller J. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 2025 Jun 3;
    • Presentation
      Kuramoto Problem and Smale Institute
      2026 Jan 21;
    • Journal Article
      Automatic biomarker discovery and enrichment with BRAD
      Pickard J, Prakash R, Choi MA, Oliven N, Stansbury C, Cwycyshyn J, Galioto N, Gorodetsky A, Velasquez A, Rajapakse I. Bioinformatics, 2025 May 1; 41 (5): DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btaf159
      PMID: 40323323
    • Presentation
      Cell Reprogramming and Digital Biology
      2025 Jun 3;

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