Mr. Dasun Wickramasooriya

Instructor | Department of Software Engineering | Faculty of Computing

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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