Experience

Old Dominion University, USA (Jan 2019 - Present)
Graduate Assistant, Department of Computer Science

I currently collaborate with Harvard University to build interpretable deep learning algorithms for early detection of antibiotic drug resistant bacteria (Project: XAIBacteria). I also collaborated with Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus (IUPUC) to predict a diagnosis of ASD from EEG data (Project: ASDetection). I also collaborated with University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to build webcam-based eye tracking models (Project: MGaze). I also built models to estimate the rate of change of the academic web using archived copies of web pages (Project: HACS).

I was also a Teaching Assistant for the following courses.

  • CS361: Data Structures & Algorithms (Spring 2020, Summer 2020)
  • CS355: Principles of Programming Languages (Summer 2020)
  • CS300T: Computers in Society (Fall 2020)
  • CS250: Problem Solving & Programming II (Spring 2021)
  • CS620: Introduction to Data Science & Analytics (Spring 2021)
Los Alamos National Laboratory (Jun 2021 - Aug 2021)
Summer Graduate Research Intern

I built a web service to robustify links in PDF documents by extracting their URLs, preserving the URL content in web archives, and announcing this robustification via Linked Data (Project: RobustPDFLinks).

DesignBoo (PVT) Ltd, Sri Lanka (Jan 2018 - Dec 2018)
Freelance Developer

I developed a mobile application for making doctor consultations. I re-structured the cloud infrastructure on AWS to reduce costs, set up unified logging, and configured CI/CD. I also provided development and production support for web and mobile apps (Project: TheGPService).

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (Jan 2018 - Jun 2018)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

I prepared course materials, conducted lectures, and graded student assignments for the course CS2963: Presentation Skills

WSO2 Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka (Jun 2017 - Dec 2017)
Software Engineering Intern

I developed a semantic knowledge base to automate question answering in WSO2 Support portal (Project: Semantic-KB).