Background

Romesh joined Burnet at the start of 2018 to work on Optima TB and HCV modelling. He completed his undergraduate studies and PhD in Physics at the University of Sydney. After working on software development for the Optima HIV project in 2015, he took up a postdoctoral research position at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity where he worked on biophysical modelling of neural activity. Now back in Australia, Romesh is based in Perth. His research interests include quantitative predictive modelling and optimization, with a particular focus on data-driven model validation.

Positions

• 2018-: Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute
• 2016-2017: Postdoctoral Scientist, Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity
• 2014-2015: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brain Dynamics Group, School of Physics, University of Sydney
• 2015-2016: Consultant Developer (Optima HIV), Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales
• 2014-2015: Analyst, Cingulate Consulting

Qualifications

• 2011-2014: PhD (Physics) The University of Sydney
• 2007-2010: BSc (Advanced) (Honours 1) Physics

Projects (2)

Current (2)

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  COVASIM: Modelling COVID-19

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  Decision science using Optima

Publications (13)

2020 (3)

• Modelling the impact of reducing control measures on the COVID-19 pandemic in a low transmission setting.
  Scott N, Palmer A, Delport D, Abeysuriya R, Stuart R, Kerr CC, Ministry D, Klein D, Sacks-Davis R, Heath K, Hainsworth S, Pedrana A, Stoové M, Wilson D, Hellard ME
  Med J Aust. 2020 Nov; Epub ahead of print
• Estimating risks associated with early reopening in Victoria. (Policy Brief prepared for the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services)
  Abeysuriya R, Delport D, Hellard M, Scott N
  Know-C19 Hub. 2020 Sep
• The role of masks in reducing the risk of new waves of COVID-19 in low transmission settings: a modeling study
  Stuart RM, Abeysuriya RG, Kerr CC, Mistry D, Klein DJ, Gray R, Hellard M, Scott N
  medRxiv. 2020 Sep; Preprint Epub ahead of print

2019 (1)

• The Cascade Analysis Tool: software to analyze and optimize care cascades.
  David J Kedziora, Romesh Abeysuriya, Cliff C Kerr, George L Chadderdon, Vlad-Stefan Harbuz, Sarah Metzger, David P Wilson, Robyn M Stuart
  Gates Open Res. 2019 Jun; 3:1488

2018 (3)

• Bayesian Optimisation of Large-Scale Biophysical Networks.
  Hadida J, Sotiropoulos SN, Abeysuriya RG, Woolrich MW, Jbabdi S
  NeuroImage. 2018 Mar; Epub ahead of print
• A unified model of melatonin, 6-sulfatoxymelatonin, and sleep dynamics.
  Romesh G Abeysuriya, Steven W Lockley, Peter A Robinson, Svetlana Postnova
  J Pineal Res. 2018 Feb; Epub ahead of print
• A biophysical model of dynamic balancing of excitation and inhibition in fast oscillatory large-scale networks.
  Romesh G Abeysuriya, Jonathan Hadida, Stamatios N Sotiropoulos, Saad Jbabdi, Robert Becker, Benjamin A E Hunt, Matthew J Brookes, Mark W Woolrich
  PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 Feb; 14(2):e1006007

2017 (1)

• Discovering dynamic brain networks from big data in rest and task.
  Diego Vidaurre, Romesh Abeysuriya, Robert Becker, Andrew J Quinn, Fidel Alfaro-Almagro, Stephen M Smith, Mark W Woolrich
  Neuroimage. 2017 Jun

2016 (1)

• Real-time automated EEG tracking of brain states using neural field theory.
  R G Abeysuriya, P A Robinson
  J Neurosci Methods. 2016 Jan; 258:28-45

2014 (1)

• Experimental observation of a theoretically predicted nonlinear sleep spindle harmonic in human EEG.
  R G Abeysuriya, C J Rennie, P A Robinson, J W Kim
  Clin Neurophysiol. 2014 Oct; 125(10):2016-2023

2012 (2)

• Physiologically based quantitative modeling of unihemispheric sleep.
  Kedziora DJ, Abeysuriya RG, Phillips AJK, Robinson PA
  J Theoret Biol. 2012 Jul; 314:109–119
• Exploring sleepiness and entrainment on permanent shift schedules in a physiologically based model.
  Svetlana Postnova, Andrew Layden, Peter A Robinson, Andrew J K Phillips, Romesh G Abeysuriya
  J Biol Rhythms. 2012 Feb; 27(1):91-102

2010 (1)

• Mammalian sleep dynamics: how diverse features arise from a common physiological framework.
  Andrew J K Phillips, Peter A Robinson, David J Kedziora, Romesh G Abeysuriya
  PLoS Comput Biol. 2010 Jun; 6(6):e1000826

News Articles (1)

2020 (1)

• Burnet modelling informs Victoria's COVID roadmap