Biography

Chandula Adhikari is a Research Assistant at the Multidisciplinary AI Research Centre (MARC), University of Peradeniya, leading two of the centre’s research groups: the Computational Biology & Bioinformatics pillar and Generative AI for Dermatology. Chandula holds a BSc Eng (Hons) in Computer Engineering, First Class, from the University of Peradeniya, and before joining MARC was a Temporary Instructor in the Department of Computer Engineering.

Chandula’s research lies at the intersection of computational biology and deep learning, with a focus on single-cell genomics, gene regulation and generative models for biomedical data, in particular models built around the underlying biology whose assumptions remain interpretable.

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  1. Discrete Diffusion for Single-Cell Gene Expression Imputation

    Chandula Adhikari, Nethali Wijekoon, Sayumi Muthukumarana, Roshan Godaliyadda, Mervyn Parakrama Ekanayake

    The Fifteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2027) · 2027

    Conference Under review Diffusion Models