Vijini is a Research Associate in Bioinformatics at the Flinders Accelerator for Microbiome Exploration (FAME). She completed her Ph.D. in 2022 and her thesis focused on algorithms and computational models related to metagenomics binning. Her research studied how the assembly graph can be incorporated to improve the metagenomic binning of contigs and she has developed several metagenomic binning tools including GraphBin and MetaCoAG. Currently, her research at FAME focuses on developing methods to bin viral metagenomes which can facilitate the discovery of novel bacteriophages from metagenomic data.