Arun Konagurthu

Assoc Professor

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

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20042025

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Biography

Arun Konagurthu is a continuing academic at Monash University, since 2010. He currently serves as the Director of Graduate Research in the Department of Data Science and AI. Between 2016-2019 he served as the Director of the undergraduate Bachelor of Computer Science Degree offered by Monash. Between 2011-2013, he held a Larkins Fellowship at this faculty. Prior to that he held an Eberly College of Science postdoctoral Fellowship at the Pennsylvania State University. His primary research area is Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, statistical learning and information theory.

His academic home page is maintained at: http://lcb.infotech.monash.edu.au/~karun

His research lab page is maintained at: http://lcb.infotech.monash.edu.au

 

Monash teaching commitment

Dr Arun Konagurthu has experience as the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT:

  • FIT3155 Advanced data structures and algorithms (2018- to date)
  • FIT2004 Algorithms and data structures (2014-2017)
  • FIT3139 Computational science (2011-2017)

Arun has experience as the Lecturer for the following units in the Faculty of IT:

  • FIT3155 Advanced data structures and algorithms (2018 - to date)
  • FIT2004 Algorithms and data structures (2014-2017)
  • FIT3139 Computational science (2011-2017)
  • FIT4012 Advanced topics in computational science (2016)

Education/Academic qualification

Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Melbourne

Award Date: 15 Jan 2007

Research area keywords

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Biology
  • statistical learning theory
  • Algorithms
  • Information Theory