Gihan Chanaka Jayatilaka : People

Advisers

I work with A. Prof. Abhinav Shrivastava at UMD
I was advised by Prof. Ragel, Prof. Godaliyadda, Prof. Parakrama, Prof. Vijitha in most of my research work in Peradeniya.
In past, I have been advised by Dr. Elkaduwe, and Dr. Nawinne in Peradeniya.
I was advised by Prof. Archan and Prof. Ashwin during my stay at SMU.
I worked with a large group on the COVID-AI project where Prof. Janaka is the principal investigator
I am adviced by Dr. Chou at Futurewei.

Colleagues

I did most of my algorithmic work at Peradeniya (research, projects and competitions) with Harshana and Suren.
In addition to them, I did competitions with Samurdhi, Nuwan and Anupamali.
I worked with Vu during my internship at SMU on screen to camera communication.
I worked with Jameel and Suren on the COVID-AI project.

Mentoring

I am working with Savindu and Sathira (Undergraduates from the University of Peradeniya) on their thesis.
Earlier, I worked with University of Peradeniya undergraduates -- Rusiru, Thilini and Sudam on their thesis project [report (PDF), webpage].

List of co-authors

Suren Sritharan (8)
Harshana Sumedha Weligampola (7)
Parakrama Ekanayake Prof. (7)
Roshan Godaliyadda Prof. (7)
Vijitha Herath Prof. (7)
Jameel Hassan (4)
Janaka Ekanayake Prof. (4)
Roshan Ragel Prof. (3)
Samath D. Dharmaratne Prof. (3)
Anuruddhika Rathnayake Dr. (2)
E.M. Mevan B. Ekanayake (2)
Rumali Perera (2)
Umar Marikkar (2)
Ashwin Ashok Prof. (1)
Archan Misra Prof. (1)
A.R.M. Anushka N. Rathnayake (1)
Chun Wai Lam (1)
Dhammika Elkaduwe Dr. (1)
E.M. Hasantha E.B. Ekanayake (1)
G.M. Dilshan Godaliyadda Dr. (1)
Hasindu Gamarachchi Dr. (1)
Hiruna Samarakoon (1)
Isuru Nawinne Dr. (1)
Janith Senanayaka (1)
Jared T. Simpson (1)
Martin A. Smith (1)
Nalin Harischandra Dr. (1)
Pankayaraj Pathmanathan (1)
Sajani Sunimalee Pallegoda Vithana (1)
Sri Parameswaran Prof. (1)
Vu Tran Dr. (1)

Alphabetical list

Anupamali Willamuna
Now: MS Student, University of Oulu, Finland.
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Linkedin]

Prof. Ashwin Ashok
Associate Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science at Georgia State University (GSU)
[Web, Scholar]

Prof. Archan Misra, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University.
Vice Provost of research
[Web, Web2, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Dr. Chih-Hsien (Jason) Chou, Futurewei Technologies, CA, USA.
Principal Video Processing Architect
[Linkedin]

Dr. Dhammika Elkaduwe, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Harshana Sumedha Weligampola
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya and Research assistant, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univeristy of Peradeniya
Now: PhD Student, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Hiruna Samarakoon
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya
Now: PhD Student, University of New South Wales, Sydney.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Prof. Janaka Ekanayake, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
IEEE Fellow
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Jameel Hassan
Back then: Research assistant, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Peradeniya
Now: Computer Vision MSc student, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), United Arab Emirates (UAE)
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Dr. Isuru Nawinne, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Nuwan Jaliyagoda
Back then: Computer Engineering undergraduate at the University of Peradeniya.
Now: Software Engineer, Rhino Partners, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka
[Web]

Pankayaraj Pathmanathan
Now: Computer Science PhD Student, University of Maryland in College park, MD, USA.
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Web, Scholar]

Prof. Parakrama Ekanayeka, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Prof. Roshan Godaliyadda, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Prof. Roshan Ragel, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Rusiru Thushara.
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya
Now: MS student, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), United Arab Emirates (UAE)
[Web, Web2]

Samurdhi Karunarathne
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Now: Deep Learning Inference Software Engineer, Nvidia, California, USA.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Sathira Silva, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Undergraduate
[Web]

Savindu Wannigama, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Undergraduate
[Web]

Sudam Kalpage
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya
Now: Software Engineer, Cut+Dry Inc.
[Web]

Suren Sritharan
Back then: Computer engineering undergraduate at the University of Peradeniya and Research assistant, Sri Lanka Technological Campus.
Now: Informatics MS student at Technical University of Munich.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Thilini Deshika
Back then: Undergraduate, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Now: Data Scientist, Dialog Axiata PLC.
[Linkedin]

Prof. Vijitha Herath, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
[Web, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Dr. Vu Tran
Now: Senior R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor, United Kingdom.
Back then: PhD student, School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University.
[Web, Linkedin, Scholar, ResearchGate]

Last Updated: 2023 Sep 01