Hey! I'm Ramith πŸ˜ƒ

Ramith, smiling and waving at the camera

"Maybe so, maybe not, we'll see.."

  I'm a second year PhD student in the CMU-Pitt
Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, advised by Prof. Lei Li.   

Previously at Harvard and MIT, I've had the opportunity to engage in computational biology and imaging research under the guidance of Prof. Dushan Wadduwage and Prof. Sergey Ovchinnikov.

❝ I'm interested in developing algorithms and advancing machine learning to learn representations in biology that lead towards drug discovery ❞

I started this blog when I was learning signals and systems (EN1060), and through this blog, I aspire to clearly write (+ develop visualizations)$^\dagger$ about concepts & advancements that awe me. Occasionally I record piano & vocal covers. You can find them here. 🎢🎹

Research Interests:AI For Science,Computational Drug Discovery,AI-Assisted Scientific Discovery

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University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Oct 2017 - June 2022

CSIRO | Data61
Oct 2020 - May 2021

Harvard University
July 2022 - July 2024

MIT
Jan 2024 - July 2024

CMU-Pitt Comp Bio
Aug 2024 - Present


$\dagger$ Inspired by Distill.pub

News

2025 June
  
Started work as a ML Research Intern at NEC Labs America
2024 June
Attended the MLDD Summer School & Molecular Machine Learning Conference @ MILA πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ (Our team won the Kinase Selectivity Prediction Challenge πŸŽ‰)
2024 May
Aya Dataset (open-access multilingual instruction dataset) accepted to ACL 2024! πŸŽ‰
2023 June
πŸ“‘ Papers accepted to workshops, Sampling and Optimization in Discrete Space (SODS) ፨ and Differentiable Almost Everything (DiffAE) 〆 at ICML 2023 πŸŽ‰
2022 November
[Invited Talk] - Northeast Symposium on Biomedical Optics
2022 September
[Invited talk] - Nano-SymBioSys workshop at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway πŸ‡³πŸ‡΄
2022 August
πŸ“„ Paper accepted to IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
2022 July
  
Started work as a Post Baccalaureate Fellow at Harvard
2021 June
πŸ… Our team - $T^3$, became the Champions of the IEEE Signal Processing Cup 2021 πŸŽ‰
2021 February
πŸ“„ First Author Paper Accepted to ISCAS 2021
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Featured Blog articles

Lion Optimizer (optimizer discovered through evolutionary search)

Lion Optimizer (optimizer discovered through evolutionary search)

ESM-2 (evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic level protein structure with a language model)

ESM-2 (evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic level protein structure with a language model)

Introduction to Adam Optimizer & advancements leading to it

Introduction to Adam Optimizer & advancements leading to it

JAX 001 - A closer look at its background

JAX 001 - A closer look at its background

Summary of Paper - Representation Learning Via Invariant Causal Mechanisms (ReLIC)

Summary of Paper - Representation Learning Via Invariant Causal Mechanisms (ReLIC)

Getting the installation Right! Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu 20.04 + ROS Noetic + Intel RealSense

Getting the installation Right! Raspberry Pi 4 with Ubuntu 20.04 + ROS Noetic + Intel RealSense

Making a robot Visualisation Platform from Scratch (and how you can do the same)

Making a robot Visualisation Platform from Scratch (and how you can do the same)

Building Blocks Matter!: #ScholarX

Building Blocks Matter!: #ScholarX

Analysing Second Order System Response of an RLC Circuit

Analysing Second Order System Response of an RLC Circuit

Does Bilateral Laplace Transform Exist for Sin(t) ?

Does Bilateral Laplace Transform Exist for Sin(t) ?

Understanding Properties of the Laplace Transform using Wolfram Language 🐺

Understanding Properties of the Laplace Transform using Wolfram Language 🐺

24 Feb 13

An inspiring open science journey to remember πŸ’™

5 min read
22 Mar 08

Access Harvard FASRC through vscode without entering password & two step code every time

1 min read
22 Feb 25

How to setup a JAX/Tensorflow 1.15 environment in the FASRC Cluster

5 min read
22 Jan 27

Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition

3 min read
22 Jan 05

JAX 001 - A closer look at its background

3 min read
21 Sep 27

Summary of Paper - Representation Learning Via Invariant Causal Mechanisms (ReLIC)

2 min read
19 Jul 19

Learning a new hardware platform (ScholarX - Part 2)

2 min read
19 Jul 14

Making a robot Visualisation Platform from Scratch (and how you can do the same)

2 min read
19 Jun 20

What I learnt the hard-way | Taking notes

1 min read
19 Jun 03

Building Blocks Matter!: #ScholarX

3 min read
18 Dec 28

Creating a pulse sensor from scratch πŸ’Ÿ

1 min read
18 Dec 22

Creating a sustainable blog..? Β―\_(ツ)_/Β―

2 min read
18 Dec 04

Analysing Second Order System Response of an RLC Circuit

1 min read
18 Dec 02

Does Bilateral Laplace Transform Exist for Sin(t) ?

1 min read
18 Dec 02

Understanding Properties of the Laplace Transform using Wolfram Language 🐺

2 min read



Some things I care about (or used to do) during my free time...
Project Aya
Open Science Effort to Accelerate Multilingual AI

Project Aya - Sinhala/ΰ·ƒΰ·’ΰΆ‚ΰ·„ΰΆ½

Working alongside likeminded Sinhala speaking individuals who'd love to see our language thrive in the current NLP advancement landscape.
(2023 - Present)
Audiobook library

Manusath Handa

We built on online platform to gather and disseminate audiobooks (Sinhala/Tamil) to visually impaired students.
(Contributed while I was an Undergrad).
Some Visualization Tools I've built
D* Lite
Algorithm
Visualizer

D* Lite Algorithm

As part of my internship, I wanted to implement the D* Lite algorithm, with dynamic obstacle creation aspect. (WebAssembly)
Intelliscope
Convolutional NN Visualizer

Project Intelliscope

As part of a medical research, built a model visualization tool to get more intuition on what sort of learning has the model performed. (TensorSpace.js)
Multi-Core Processor
Simulator

FPGA Group Project

To test our ISA and the functionality of any assembly code, I developed a tool to simulate the activity of each core. (p5.js)

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