CAREER SUMMARY
- Academic Instructor, Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) (2023 – Present)
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- MPhil in Information Technology (2025 - Reading)
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) - MSc in Artificial Intelligence (2023 - Reading)
Department of Computational Mathematics
University of Moratuwa - BSc (Hons) in Information Technology (Specializing in Interactive Media) (2019 - 2023)
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)
HONOURS AND AWARDS
- Published research at the 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC 2022).
Gunawardana, K. H. R., Deshan, M. P. N., Hemachandra, M. G. S. P., Ganegoda, D., Hettiarachchi, N. M., & Weerasinghe, L.** (2022). Cocopal - A Deep Learning Based Intelligent System to Certify and Standardize the Quality of Coconut Based Products. Proceedings of the 2022 4th International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC), Colombo, Sri Lanka, pp. 470-475. doi: 10.1109/ICAC57685.2022.10025099
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Semantic Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs
- Ontology Engineering
- Healthcare Artificial Intelligence
- Intelligent Decision Support Systems
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning
- Computer Vision
- AI for Digital Forensics
RESEARCH AREAS
- Computer Vision
- Deep Learning
- Artificial intelligence
- Machine learning
ONGOING RESEARCH
- Explainable AI for Drug Authenticity Verification (MSc in AI - University of Moratuwa)
- A Sri Lankan-Specific Explainable AI Framework for Realistic Facial Image Generation from Forensic Sketches (MPhil in IT - SLIIT)
PUBLICATIONS
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Cocopal - A Deep Learning Based Intelligent System to Certify and Standardize the Quality of Coconut Based Products
Gunawardana, K. H. R., Deshan, M. P. N., Hemachandra, M. G. S. P., Ganegoda, D., Hettiarachchi, N. M., & Weerasinghe, L,