Dr. Charika Weerasiriwardhane

Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade)

Faculty of Computing | Computer Science & Software Engineering

Career Summary

Doctoral Candidate (March 2013-January 2017)
School of Information Technologies
The University of Sydney
Researcher (2013-2015)

Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence(NICTA)

Casual Academic (2014-2015)
Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR)
University of Sydney
Postdoctoral Research Associate (March 2017-December 2019) Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR), University of Sydney

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

University of Sydney, School of Information Technologies , Sydney ,Australia

Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of
Excellence(NICTA), ATP Research Laboratory,Sydney
PhD in Engineering and IT, (Machine Learning), June 2013 - January 2017
Thesis Topic: Multi Modal Learning For Adaptive Scene Understanding
Advisor: Dr.Fabio Ramos

University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Engineering,Sri Lanka
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Honors) May 2007-November 2011
Specialized in Mechanical Engineering

HONOURS AND AWARDS

The NICTA International Postgraduate Award(NIPA)(2013-2014)
The NICTA Research Project Award(NRPA)(2013-2014)

Research Interests and Memberships

Research Interests

Intelligent vehicles
Adaptive learning of image classification based on probabilistic graphical models
Robot vision (2D and 3D data fusion, uncertainty estimation)