I am working as a Postdoctoral Researcher under the supervision of Dr. Lila Kari in the School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo. 

Research Interests:
* Bioinformatics (Alignment-free whole-genome analysis, Taxonomic classification, Origin of mitochondria and chloroplast, Mitochondrial disease classification, Virus-host co-evolution, Cancer classification)
* Machine learning
* Comparative genomics
* Evolutionary computing (Genetic algorithms)

Teaching: CS 482/682, Computational Techniques in Biological Sequence Analysis, Winter 2021

email: gurjit.randhawa@uwaterloo.ca