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Dr Sarinder was awarded a Bachelor of Computer Science from the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University Malaya (UM) in 2000 and a Masters in Computer Science in 2002. She then completed her PhD in the field of Bioinformatics at the Faculty of Science, University of Malaya in 2007.Currently she is an Associate Professor at the same department, as well as the  Program Coordinator for Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics program. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Data Science & Bioinformatics Laboratory in UM. Dr Sarinder’s main interest is managing, representing and analysing biological data using computational tools and techniques. Her contribution towards these projects is mostly in building digital systems using visual analytics, databases and data mining techniques. She is also working on research projects to automate species recognition using image processing and machine learning techniques. Currently, she is engaged in a project on Electronic Medical Record (EMR) at the University Malaya Medical Center (UMMC), mainly for building automated systems using data science techniques. Dr Sarinder has published 70 over publications including books, journals and proceedings. Dr Sarinder is an Associate Editor of Malaysian Journal of Science (MJS) and a reviewer for many journals in her discipline. She was also the chair of International Symposium on Biomedical Data Infrastructure 2013 and 4'th Data analytic in Biomedicine Workshop (DAB 2013) organised by IEEE. Dr Sarinder was also a Visiting Scholar at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. 

Research Interest

Data Science, Bioinformatics Databases , Electronic Medical Records (EMR), Genome Informatics, Data Modeling