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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
Projects
- 3 Finished
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Modelling, synthesis and testing of potential agents against COVID-19 main protease
Konagurthu, A. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Lesk, A. M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stuckey, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Allison, L. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Abramson, D. (Chief Investigator (CI))
15/07/20 → 31/05/21
Project: Research
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Next-generation Protein Structural comparison using Information Theory
Konagurthu, A. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)), Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M. (Chief Investigator (CI)), Stuckey, P. (Chief Investigator (CI)) & Lesk, A. M. (Partner Investigator (PI))
4/02/15 → 30/09/19
Project: Research
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Macromolecular Informatics
Konagurthu, A. (Primary Chief Investigator (PCI)) & Garcia De La Banda Garcia, M. (Chief Investigator (CI))
1/02/12 → 31/01/16
Project: Research
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PhiSiCal-Checkup: A Bayesian framework to validate amino acid conformations within experimental protein structures
Amarasinghe, P. R., Allison, L., Morton, C. J., Stuckey, P. J., de la Banda, M. G., Lesk, A. M. & Konagurthu, A. S., 2 Jan 2025, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 122, 1, 9 p., e2416301121.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Getting 'ϕψχal' with proteins: minimum message length inference of joint distributions of backbone and sidechain dihedral angles
Amarasinghe, P. R., Allison, L., Stuckey, P. J., García De La Banda, M. G., Lesk, A. M. & Konagurthu, A. S., Jun 2023, In: Bioinformatics (Oxford, England). 39, 39, p. i357-i367 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus) -
Sequence and structure alignments in post-AlphaFold era
Rajapaksa, S., Konagurthu, A. S. & Lesk, A. M., Apr 2023, In: Current Opinion in Structural Biology. 79, 7 p., 102539.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Bridging the gaps in statistical models of protein alignment
Sumanaweera, D., Allison, L. & Konagurthu, A. S., 1 Jul 2022, In: Bioinformatics. 38, p. i229-i237 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile2 Citations (Scopus) -
On the reliability and the limits of inference of amino acid sequence alignments
Rajapaksa, S., Sumanaweera, D., Lesk, A. M., Allison, L., Stuckey, P. J., Garcia De La Banda, M., Abramson, D. & Konagurthu, A. S., Jul 2022, In: Bioinformatics. 38, p. i255-i263 9 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile9 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Larkins Fellow - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Konagurthu, A. (Recipient), 1 Jan 2011
Prize: Competitive Fellowships
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Member - Undergraduate Programs Committee - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Konagurthu, A. (Member)
1 Jan 2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Committees and working groups
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Member - Faculty Research Committee - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Konagurthu, A. (Member)
1 Jan 2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Course Director - Bachelor of Computer Science - Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University
Konagurthu, A. (Chair/ Co-Chair)
1 Jan 2016Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Past Alternate HDR coordinator for Faculty of IT - Monash University
Konagurthu, A. (Executive Member)
28 Apr 2013Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body
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Past FIT representative on Faculty of Science Board of Studies - Monash University
Konagurthu, A. (Executive Member)
22 Jun 2012Activity: External Academic Engagement › Professional association or peak discipline body