Finished my PhD (Trustworthy AI for Computer Vision at University of Melbourne
4 Publications, PhD Writeup Award, FEIT Travel Grant.
Timeline
Personal timeline containing significant events in my life and career in reverse chronological order (last updated June, 2026).
April 2026
2026
1 ECCV Paper Accepted
First-author paper accepted at ECCV 2026.
April 2026
Research Assistant — University of Melbourne
Joined the AI Research Group (part-time) on Interpretable Machine Learning, developing mathematically-constrained neural network layers in PyTorch for symbolic regression and transparent function approximation.
2026
PhD Thesis Submitted
Submitted my PhD thesis, Trustworthy Machine Learning for Computer Vision: A Representation-centric Perspective, at the University of Melbourne (under examination).
2026
Two CVPR Papers Accepted
First-author paper SpHOR accepted at CVPR 2026 (Findings), and Beyond Deepfake vs Real accepted at the CVPR 2026 Workshops.
2024
Tutor — University of Melbourne
Began tutoring in the Faculty of Engineering & IT, teaching AI for Engineers (MCEN90048) and Numerical Algorithms (ENGR30004), mentoring 90+ students.
2023
First Journal Paper
First-author paper on measuring presence/place illusion in VR using EEG published in Springer Virtual Reality (Q1 journal).
Oct 2022
PhD @ University of Melbourne, Australia
Started my PhD in Engineering & IT under Prof. Saman Halgamuge, researching Trustworthy Machine Learning for Computer Vision on a FEIT Graduate Researcher Scholarship.
Jun 2021
Research Engineer — University of Moratuwa
Joined the AHEAD Project on a smart camera with edge processing, co-designing a hardware-accelerated quantized ResNet on a custom FPGA-integrated PCB in SystemVerilog, and contributing to a patent on hierarchical feature encoding.
2021
Graduated University of Moratuwa
Completed my B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering with First Class Honours (GPA 3.93/4.20), awarded the Gold Medal and the Convocation Award for Most Outstanding Graduand of the Faculty of Engineering.
2020
IEEE Signal Processing Cup — Runner-up
Led a team to runner-up in the IEEE SP Cup 2020, building a real-time video frame prediction pipeline with CNN-LSTMs, Conditional GANs, and a self-supervised anomaly classifier.
Jun 2019
Trainee ML Engineer — Zeptolytics
Built and optimized end-to-end data analytics workflows and machine learning production pipelines using Pandas, NumPy, and SciPy.
2019
Two First-Place Wins
Led teams to victory at the SLIIT Datathon (CodeFest 2019), a nationwide data science competition, and the iHack 5.0 hackathon at the University of Colombo.
2016
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Started my undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering at the highest-ranking engineering faculty in Sri Lanka.