Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (Reading)
Research Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition(CDAC), La Trobe University, Australia.
August 2021 - Present
BS.c. Computer Science and Engineering(Hons)
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Srilanka
January 2015 - January 2020
Overall SGPA: 4.01 out od 4.20. Dean's list in all the semesters. 4th Highest GPA batch of 128
Experience
Graduate Research Scientist
Research Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition(CDAC), La Trobe University, Australia.
October 2021 - Present
- CDAC is a research laboratory in La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
- Engage in Research work in Natural Language Processing and Data Science.
- Research Supervisors : Prof. Damminda Alahakoon, Prof. Daswin De Silva.
Graduate Research Scientist
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia.
February 2022 - August 2022
- Engage in Research work in Natural Language Processing and Data Science.
- Modelling emotions in financial letters.
Contract Lecturer
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Srilanka.
September 2020 - October 2021
- Worked as a contract lecturer and contributing to both academic and research work.
- Lecturing for Modular Software Development - CS2832
- Mentoring - Research and Development Project-CS4202
Junior Consultant
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Srilanka.
February 2020 - September 2020
- Worked as as a Junior Consultant and contributing to both academic and research work.
- Teaching Assistant work for modules Programming Fundamentals-CS1032, Software Engineering Project-CS3202, Research and Development Project-CS4202, Machine Learning-CS4622
Research Scientist
Live Labs, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
June 2018 - December 2018
- Live Labs is a research laboratory in the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore.
- I worked with a project to build a crowdsourcing platform with advanced features which branched to areas such as Bayesian Machine Learning and Data Science and Analytics.
- · Research Supervisor : Kotaro HARA, Ph.D. (Maryland, College Park) - Assistant Professor at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore.
Skills
Note: I think these sections are silly, but everyone seems to have one. Here is a *mostly* honest overview of my skills.
Awards and Recognition
Best Paper Award – 15TH IEEE International Conference on Human System Interactions, Melbourne, Australia, 2022
BEST PAPER AWARD – 19th IEEE International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2019
-For the paper titled “Alignment-free Whole Genome Comparison Using k-mer Forests.
DEAN'S LIST IN ALL ACADEMIC SEMESTERS
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa
Aug 2015 - Feb 2020
Overall Champions HackLN 2k17 Inter University Hackathon Nov 2017
Department of Statistics and Computer Science,University of Kelaniya
