Jagath Chandana Rajapakse

Professor of Data Science at the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University

Professional profile

Jagath Rajapakse is Professor of Data Science at the College of Computing and Data Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has BSc degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University at Buffalo, USA. He was Visiting Scientist to the Max-Planck Institute of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany, and the National Institute of Mental Health, USA before joining NTU. He was Visiting Professor to the Department of Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Professor Rajapakse’s research works are in the areas of explainable AI, generative AI, brain imaging, and computational and systems biology. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed research articles in high-impact journals and conferences. His current research works focus on developing computational techniques and tools for diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases by combining neuroimaging and multi-omics data; and for generating small molecule and peptide-based drugs for cancer. He is also looking into how imaging data can be integrated with multi-omics (genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and epigenomics) data for investigating molecular underpinnings of various diseases.

He serves as Editor for Engineering Applications in Artificial Intelligence journal (IF = 8.0) and served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on medical imaging, IEEE Transaction on neural networks and learning systems, and IEEE Transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics. He was a Fulbright Scholar and elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2012 in recognition of his contributions to brain image analysis.