He enrolled in the Ohio University in Fall of 2007 as graduate student after completing the bachelor degree in science with physics major and chemistry and mathematics as minor subjects from 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. Rakitha’s main research interests include precision tests of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics, search for new physics beyond the SM and study of nuclear medium effects on bound quarks (EMC effect).