Oshan Mudannayake — NewsResearch, publication, and career updates from Oshan Mudannayake.https://ivantha.com/enI joined KIXLAB as a Visiting Researcher.https://ivantha.com/newsnews-0-Aug 2026I joined KIXLAB as a Visiting Researcher.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTI joined <a href="https://www.kixlab.org/">KIXLAB</a> as a Visiting Researcher.My paper Affordable Winner's-Curse Correction: Paired-Offset Reevaluation for Hyperparame…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-1-Jul 2026My 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.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMy paper <a href="https://openreview.net/forum?id=P8J9cLsmNs">Affordable Winner's-Curse Correction: Paired-Offset Reevaluation for Hyperparameter Search on a Single GPU</a> was accepted at the GlobalSouthAI workshop at IJCAI-ECAI 2026, held in Bremen, Germany.Our paper On Privacy-Preserved Machine Learning Using Secure Multi-Party Computing: Techn…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-2-Sep 2025Our paper On Privacy-Preserved Machine Learning Using Secure Multi-Party Computing: Techniques and Trends was published in Computers, Materials & Continua (CMC).Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTOur paper <a href="https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2025.068875">On Privacy-Preserved Machine Learning Using Secure Multi-Party Computing: Techniques and Trends</a> was published in Computers, Materials &amp; Continua (CMC).Our paper on the Aya dataset — an open-access collection for multilingual instruction tun…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-3-Aug 2024Our paper on the Aya dataset — an open-access collection for multilingual instruction tuning — was published at ACL 2024.Thu, 01 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMTOur paper on the <a href="https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.620/">Aya dataset</a> — an open-access collection for multilingual instruction tuning — was published at ACL 2024.Our paper Detecting Water In Visual Image Streams Captured From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-4-Oct 2023Our paper Detecting Water In Visual Image Streams Captured From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles was published in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI).Sun, 01 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMTOur paper <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1047320323001839">Detecting Water In Visual Image Streams Captured From Unmanned Aerial Vehicles</a> was published in the Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (JVCI).I joined ParadigmAI as the Lead Machine Learning Engineer.https://ivantha.com/newsnews-5-Aug 01, 2023I joined ParadigmAI as the Lead Machine Learning Engineer.Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMTI joined <a href="https://paradigmai.com/">ParadigmAI</a> as the Lead Machine Learning Engineer.I joined Cohere For AI as a Community Researcher to work on the Aya multilingual instruct…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-6-Mar 01, 2023I joined Cohere For AI as a Community Researcher to work on the Aya multilingual instruction-tuning project under Dr. Sara Hooker.Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTI joined <a href="https://cohere.com/research">Cohere For AI</a> as a Community Researcher to work on the Aya multilingual instruction-tuning project under <a href="https://www.sarahooker.me/">Dr. Sara Hooker</a>.I started reading for an M.Sc in Data Science & AI at UoM.https://ivantha.com/newsnews-7-Jan 01, 2023I started reading for an M.Sc in Data Science & AI at UoM.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTI started reading for an M.Sc in Data Science &amp; AI at <a href="https://uom.lk/">UoM</a>.Our paper Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Multi-Step Forecast…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-8-Nov 2022Our paper Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Multi-Step Forecasting in Municipal Solid Waste Generation was published in IEEE Access.Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTOur paper <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9950270">Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Multi-Step Forecasting in Municipal Solid Waste Generation</a> was published in IEEE Access.I got promoted to the Senior Data Science Engineer role.https://ivantha.com/newsnews-9-Nov 01, 2021I got promoted to the Senior Data Science Engineer role.Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTI got promoted to the Senior Data Science Engineer role.I joined UCSC as a part time Research Assistant to work on predicting the solid waste gen…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-10-May 01, 2021I 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.Sat, 01 May 2021 00:00:00 GMTI joined <a href="https://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/">UCSC</a> as a part time Research Assistant to work on predicting the solid waste generation in Sri Lanka. This project is supervised by <a href="https://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/profile/nas/">Dr. Noel Fernando</a>.I switched to the new data science team as a Data Science Engineer.https://ivantha.com/newsnews-11-Apr 01, 2021I switched to the new data science team as a Data Science Engineer.Thu, 01 Apr 2021 00:00:00 GMTI switched to the new data science team as a Data Science Engineer.I joined SCoRe Lab to work on a research to find ways to match internet domain entities u…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-12-Sep 29, 2020I joined SCoRe Lab to work on a research to find ways to match internet domain entities using ML techniques with Dr. Mohamed Nabeel @QCRI.Tue, 29 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTI joined <a href="https://scorelab.org/">SCoRe Lab</a> to work on a research to find ways to match internet domain entities using ML techniques with <a href="https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/staff/dr-mohamed-nabeel">Dr. Mohamed Nabeel</a> @<a href="https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/qcri/about">QCRI</a>.I joined WSO2 IAM team as a Software Engineer.https://ivantha.com/newsnews-13-Mar 02, 2020I joined WSO2 IAM team as a Software Engineer.Mon, 02 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMTI joined <a href="https://wso2.com/">WSO2</a> IAM team as a Software Engineer.I joined UCSC as a Research Intern to work under the topic 'Machine Learning over Encrypt…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-14-Jul 01, 2018I joined UCSC as a Research Intern to work under the topic 'Machine Learning over Encrypted Data'. I will be supervised by Dr. Nalin Ranasinghe.Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMTI joined <a href="https://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/">UCSC</a> as a Research Intern to work under the topic 'Machine Learning over Encrypted Data'. I will be supervised by <a href="https://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/profile/dnr/">Dr. Nalin Ranasinghe</a>.I got selected for the GSoC 2018 under CERN-HSF | ownCloud | AARNet to carry out the proj…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-15-Apr 23, 2018I got selected for the GSoC 2018 under CERN-HSF | ownCloud | AARNet to carry out the project Petabyte-Scale Cloud Storage File Manager.Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMTI got selected for the GSoC 2018 under <a href="https://hepsoftwarefoundation.org/">CERN-HSF</a> | <a href="https://owncloud.com/">ownCloud</a> | <a href="https://www.aarnet.edu.au/">AARNet</a> to carry out the project <a href="https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2018/projects/5334913901395968">Petabyte-Scale Cloud Storage File Manager</a>.I started working on developing an OCR solution for Sinhala language using Tesseract OCR…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-16-Jan 18, 2018I started working on developing an OCR solution for Sinhala language using Tesseract OCR Engine in collaboration with Dr. Leonie Solomons.Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTI started working on developing an OCR solution for Sinhala language using Tesseract OCR Engine in collaboration with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonie-solomons-2aa5b31a/">Dr. Leonie Solomons</a>.I joined the R&D team at Dreamteam IT Solutions until I start my bachelors at UCSC.https://ivantha.com/newsnews-17-Feb 05, 2016I joined the R&D team at Dreamteam IT Solutions until I start my bachelors at UCSC.Fri, 05 Feb 2016 00:00:00 GMTI joined the R&amp;D team at <a href="#">Dreamteam IT Solutions</a> until I start my bachelors at <a href="https://ucsc.cmb.ac.lk/">UCSC</a>.I joined the instructor team at Dreamteam IT Solutions and started conducting my own clas…https://ivantha.com/newsnews-18-Jan 23, 2016I joined the instructor team at Dreamteam IT Solutions and started conducting my own class on introductory robotics.Sat, 23 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTI joined the instructor team at <a href="#">Dreamteam IT Solutions</a> and started conducting my own class on introductory robotics.