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Batticaloa, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka

Finding robust and sustainable data driven solutions for local problems.

Batticaloa, Eastern, Sri Lanka

Architect next iteration of AI Hate Speech Detector; Pitch and acquire funding.Advocate of AI based methodologies at UN digital peace building campaign.Work on multiple minor ML projects (computer vision, time series etc.)Guide trainees on AI, ML and Data Analytics.Plan software development infrastructure and skill pool of DreamSpace Academy software lab.

Batticaloa, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka

Managed the development of an 'AI-based digital hate speech detector' on behalf of DreamSpace Academy.The goal of the model is to detect Tamil, Tanglish, and English hate speech found on social media platforms that are popular in Sri Lanka. The development of the AI framework was carried out by contributors at Omdena, in collaboration with NYU CIC. A number of locals were employed with the task of systematically collecting Sri Lankan hate speech from various social media platforms. These people were strategically selected from different regions of Sri Lanka, coming from different communities, effectively reducing the bias in the training data and capturing the whole scene of online hate speech.This is a proof-of-concept. The model would be used to further understand how hate speech plays a key role in communal violence, how ML algorithms can be used to perceive and detect hate speech and to fuel further research in the near future.

Batticaloa, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka

Worked on predicting a random number generator. As a research project, a client had to test the predictability of a random number generator using AI. Various AI models were put to the test. When approaching the task as a time series problem, LSTMs were found to be the most viable candidate, though being off by a very large margin. As the conclusion, it was decided that the particular pseudo random number generator can not be predicted by existing AI models.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Engineered and developed the automation of Excel spreadsheets, macros, functions and pivot tables for HSBC Bank. The solution was programmed with Python through win32 API. A major challenge was accounting for human error as these spreadsheets would often be opened for inspection, as well as the loading times due to the large size of the Excel files.However, these problems were mitigated through offloading certain tasks to certain built-in functions native to Windows OS. I found NumPy vectorization a lifesaver when applying calculations. A lot of data wrangling was involved as well.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Worked on extracting both structured and unstructured data from CyberSec Reports online such as the ones from Palo Alto Networks and CISCO. The problem was to detect human-readable text, instead of all the text in a page's source file. This is where the workflow differed from conventional web scraping and a customized scraping pipeline had to be constructed for each site. This was achieved by testing the semantics of the text.Then the extracted text was parsed into a nested JSON and uploaded to ElasticSearch for further processing.

Berlin, Germany

Worked on classifying coffee beans using Computer Vision and Machine Learning techniques. Made educated decisions on the situation considering all the outcomes of the experiments.This internship was made possible by DreamSpace.

Batticaloa, Eastern, Sri Lanka

Summarized research and other articles published in Harvard Business Review for a researcher and entrepreneur in Colombo.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Systems

A/L, Biology, Advanced Level

Activities and Societies: Albion's Club of Drama and Theater