CogntivOS

I am a computational scientist with 10+ years of experience designing and deploying production-grade genomics pipelines, machine learning models, and AI-driven research tools. I currently work as a Bioinformatics Programmer/Analyst II at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, TX.

My research focuses on epigenomics — particularly DNA methylation, systemic interindividual variation, and the epigenetic basis of complex traits and disease. I am a co-developer of the Agilent SureSelect Baylor Human CoRSIV Panel and the Xtra DNAm Array with TruDiagnostic, two commercialized genome-scale methylation profiling products now in use across multiple labs globally.

I hold a Ph.D. in Computational Science and Engineering from Michigan Technological University and a B.S. in Computational Physics from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. My first-author publications appear in Genome Biology, Translational Psychiatry, and Nucleic Acids Research.

Alongside genomics research, I build scalable data infrastructure on HPC and cloud environments and have a growing portfolio of applied LLM and NLP systems for scientific research — including RAG-based literature QA tools and agentic bioinformatics pipeline orchestrators.