Indika Kahanda

Dr. Indika Kahanda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the University of North Florida, where he directs the bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and medical informatics lab. His research interests lie in the areas of Bioinformatics, Biomedical Informatics, and Medical Informatics. He focuses on the application of machine learning and natural language processing techniques to solve problems involving large-scale biological, molecular, and biomedical data. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Colorado State University in 2016 in the area of Bioinformatics, a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2010, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2007.