News
- Jul 2026
My paper Affordable Winner's-Curse Correction: Paired-Offset Reevaluation for Hyperparameter Search on a Single GPU was accepted at the GlobalSouthAI workshop at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, held in Bremen, Germany. - Sep 2025
Our paper On Privacy-Preserved Machine Learning Using Secure Multi-Party Computing: Techniques and Trends was published in Computers, Materials & Continua (CMC). - Mar 2025
I joined the Colombo HCI Lab at UCSC as a Research Assistant, working with Dr. Dilrukshi Gamage on deepfake detection and media literacy for the Global South. - Aug 2024
Our paper on the Aya dataset — an open-access collection for multilingual instruction tuning — was published at ACL 2024. - Oct 2023
Our paper Detecting Water In Visual Image Streams Captured From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles was published in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI). - Mar 01, 2023
I joined Cohere For AI as a Community Researcher to work on the Aya multilingual instruction-tuning project under Dr. Sara Hooker. - Nov 2022
Our paper Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Multi-Step Forecasting in Municipal Solid Waste Generation was published in IEEE Access. - Nov 01, 2021
I got promoted to the Senior Data Science Engineer role. - May 01, 2021
I joined UCSC as a part time Research Assistant to work on predicting the solid waste generation in Sri Lanka. This project is supervised by Dr. Noel Fernando. - Apr 01, 2021
I switched to the new data science team as a Data Science Engineer. - Sep 29, 2020
I joined SCoRe Lab to work on a research to find ways to match internet domain entities using ML techniques with Dr. Mohamed Nabeel @QCRI. - Jul 01, 2018
I joined UCSC as a Research Intern to work under the topic 'Machine Learning over Encrypted Data'. I will be supervised by Dr. Nalin Ranasinghe. - Apr 23, 2018
I got selected for the GSoC 2018 under CERN-HSF | ownCloud | AARNet to carry out the project Petabyte-Scale Cloud Storage File Manager. - Jan 18, 2018
I started working on developing an OCR solution for Sinhala language using Tesseract OCR Engine in collaboration with Dr. Leonie Solomons. - Jan 23, 2016
I joined the instructor team at Dreamteam IT Solutions and started conducting my own class on introductory robotics.