Rajith Vidanaarachchi

Rajith Vidanaarachchi

Post-Doc Researcher and Educator at the University of Melbourne

Rajith Vidanaarachchi

Hello, I am Rajith!

I primarily work as a Researcher at the Transport, Health, and Urban Development (THUD) Research Lab at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), University of Melbourne. I work with Agent-Based Models and research how to make them better!

I am also an educator at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, where I am the head-tutor for AI for Engineering, and Numerical Methods in Engineering subjects.

This website is still under construction - I apologise for the sparcity while I populate the content in my spare time.

My Research

I primarily work with Agent-Based Models to analyse complex scenarios across various domains, including health, transport and social science. My research interests include fair and ethical AI, optimisation and pattern recognition and community analysis. I am interested in supervising projects related to above research interests.

My Teaching

I am an avid educator and have always enjoyed sharing my knowledge with the next generation. I have extensive teaching/training experience in data structures and algorithms, as well as in subjects related to AI. Currently, I manage a tutoring team at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne, as the head tutor for “MCEN90048: AI for Engineering”. I am also an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA).

My Background

I recieved my PhD from the College of Engineering and Computer Science of the Australian National University. For my PhD I analysed microbial community behaviour analysis. After my PhD, I started using my community behaviour analysis on human societies, coupled with Agent-Based Modelling techniques. I recieved my Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I have trained and worked as a Software Engineer for a short period as well.

My Non-Academic Interests

In my spare time, I engage in a variety of hobbies.

  • COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns in Melbourne made me an artist, mostly working with watercolours; I sometimes sell my art, but yet to earn a profit with it! You can check my work on my instagram account.

  • A life-long hobby of mine has been learning languages - both classical and contemporary. I speak a few with various degrees of fluency.

  • Check what I’m reading these days on my goodreads account.

This Website

This website has been developed using academicpages template, and is hosted on GitHub pages.