CAREER SUMMARY
- Academic Instructor, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, SLIIT | October 2026 – present
- Software Engineering Consultant, Bondstreet One (Pvt) Ltd | September 2025 – present
- Software Engineering Intern, TWC Innovations | June 2024 – June 2025
- Undergraduate Trainee, Digital Learning Consultant, IFS R&D International (Pvt) Ltd | July 2023 – June 2024
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
BSc (Hons) in Information Technology, specializing in Software Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), October 2022 - September 2026
- First Class Honours
- Final-year research: AI-Driven Cloud Platform for Intelligent Grading and Personalized Feedback (Supervisors: Prof. Nuwan Kodagoda, Dr. Kalpani Manathunga)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- 2nd Runners Up - IOBSL Innovations Competition 2026
- First Class Honours, BSc (Hons) IT (Software Engineering), SLIIT
- Peer-reviewed publication at ICHORA 2026 (IEEE)
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- Software Engineering
- AI for Software Engineering (AI4SE)
- AI for Education
- Software Engineering for AI (SE4AI)
- Code Intelligence & Program Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Code Clone Detection
RESEARCH AREAS
- Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Machine Learning
- Deep Learning
- Artificial intelligence
ONGOING RESEARCH
- Code Clone Detection: Research on modern techniques for detecting code clones, building on the published ICHORA 2026 (IEEE) work on hybrid LSH-based structural clone detection.
- Continuous Biometric Authentication: Research into verifying a user’s identity continuously throughout a session, rather than only at login.
- Automated Grading and Feedback (Socratic): AI-driven grading with personalized feedback that uses Socratic questioning to guide students toward their own answers, extending the GradeLoop platform and the final-year grading research.
PUBLICATIONS
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Scalable Hybrid LSH-Based Framework for Structural Code Clone Detection
Dasun Wickramasooriya, Bilal Awshid, Hasintha Dilshan, Sudila Jayasekara, Nuwan Kodagoda, Kalpani Manathunga,