Experience

Georgia Institute of Technology, USA (Sep 2024 - Present)
Research Scientist II, Institute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)

Developing Cybershuttle — a platform to connect your data and code to HPC, cloud, and local resources and run experiments anywhere.

Marketrix AI, USA (Sep 2024 - Present)
Co-founder

Designing bots that navigate software and learn to perform complex tasks. Building RAG pipelines that use this learning to make software self-supporting.

Old Dominion University, USA (Jan 2019 - Aug 2024)
Graduate Assistant, Department of Computer Science

Developed methods to diagnose ASD through EEG and IRT (w/IUPUC), diagnose ADHD through Eye Tracking (w/ODU), perform webcam-based eye tracking (w/UCSD), estimate cognitive load from real-time gaze data (w/ODU), and estimate webpage changes from archived crawl data (w/PSC). Worked as a TA for core CS courses, including Data Structures, Algorithms, Principles of Programming, and Computers in Society.

Harvard University, USA (Feb 2022 - Aug 2022)
Graduate Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Imaging

Explored interpretable methods to predict antimicrobial resistance from single-cell bacteria images. Trained Neural ODEs to approximate the dynamics of wave propagation in multimode fibers. Developed hypothesis testing methods to detect out-of-distribution inputs to deep neural networks.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (Jun 2021 - Aug 2021)
Summer Graduate Research Intern

Developed ML based solutions to extract URLs from PDF documents, archive their content for posterity, and generate robust links.

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

Developed a mobile app for video-based doctor consultations. Restructured cloud services on AWS to reduce costs, set up unified logging, and configured CI/CD. Co-led development for web and mobile apps.

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

Prepared course materials, conducted lectures, and graded student assignments for the CS2963 Presentation Skills course.

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

Created a knowledge base for WSO2 Support by scraping and vectorizing WSO2 docs. Created a document retrieval API for support questions, wrapped it with DialogFlow Conversation API, and integrated with Facebook Chat.