About
Welcome to my personal space! I'm currently pursuing a MASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at McMaster
University under the guidance of my supervisor, Prof. Thia Kirubarajan . My academic journey began with a bachelor's degree from the University of
Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.
Prior to embarking on my graduate studies, I had the privilege of contributing to the Speech and Language Lab at Nanyang Technological University under the guidance of Prof. Chng Eng Siong . Additionally, I was involved
with Aaivu at the University of Moratuwa, where I worked alongside Dr. Uthayasanker Thayasivam . My professional journey also led me to valuable
experiences at Expert Intelligence, Inc. , ExentAI, Ltd. , and
the University of Galway .
Research Interests : Deep Learning · Computer Vision · Multiple Object Tracking · NLP
Recent Updates
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I started working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course COMPUTER ENG 4TN4: Image Processing at
McMaster.
I started working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the course ELECENG 3FK4: Electromagnetics II at McMaster.
I started my graduate studies at McMaster University.
Our paper got accepted at RANLP 2023 as a regular paper/long
presentation.
Joined the University of Moratuwa as a Visiting Instructor for CS1033: Programming
Fundamentals.
Presented our work on OCR for low-resoure languages at Open Collab Research Jam #12
Presented a paper at APSIPA 2022
conference.
Presented a paper at IALP
2022 conference.
Joined the University of Moratuwa as a Teaching Assistant for CS3630: Deep Neural
Networks.
Publications
Most Recent Works
Pretraining / Language Models
Dataset / Out-of-Domain Generalization
Other Papers
Experience
Professional
Research
Teaching
Gradaute Teaching Assistant, Image Processing (COMPUTER ENG 4TN4), Winter 2024, Mac
Gradaute Teaching Assistant, Electromagnetics II (ELECENG 3FK4), Fall 2023, Mac
Visiting Instructor, Programming Fundamentals (CS1033), Summer 2023, UoM
Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Data Science (CS3121), Wintor 2023, UoM
Teaching Assistant, Deep Neural Networks (CS3630), Fall 2022, UoM
Skills
expert
advanced
intermediate
beginner
Honors & Awards
McMaster Graduate Research Scholarship
Top 5 Finalist Award of HPCIC
Innovation Challenge 2022
SL Insurance Suba Pathum National Scholarship
Ceylinco Pranama Scholarship
Mahapola Merit Scholarship
Dialog Merit Scholarship
Open Source
Tools
NERP :
A pip package for fine-tuning transformer models for NER
Models
MedBERT :
A pre-trained language model for Biomedical NER
Tamizhi-Net OCR :
Enhanced LSTM-based Tesseract models for Tamil and Sinhala legacy fonts
Dataset
Talks & Presentations
Services
Last update: 2024/01. Thanks Bootstrap !.