Rakitha Beminiwattha is an Assistant Professor of Physics at the Louisiana Tech University. He enrolled in Ohio University in the Fall of 2007 as a graduate student after completing a bachelor's degree in science with a physics major and chemistry and mathematics as minor subjects from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka where he is native. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in nuclear experimental physics in May of 2013. Rakitha then started as a research associate with the Syracuse University stationed at Jefferson Lab. His main research interests include precision tests of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, the search for new physics beyond the SM, and the study of nuclear medium effects on bound quarks. Dr. Beminiwattha's research is funded by National Science Foundation
