obtained his degree, Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computer Science from the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) with First Class Honours. Due to his academic excellence, he was awarded Professor V.K. Samaranayake Award for the Most Outstanding Graduate of UCSC, the Professor Mohan Munasinghe Award for Best Performance at UCSC and the Professor Tilak Hettiarachchy Award for Academic Excellence at the University of Colombo (UOC) at the General Convocation of UOC 2019. Further, he was awarded the Best ICT Student (Undergraduate Category) in Sri Lanka at the CSSL (Computer Society of Sri Lanka) National ICT Awards 2020. He was selected among the top 10 undergraduates in Sri Lanka to represent the UOC in “Huawei Seeds for the Future 2018” in China which is a rare opportunity that an undergraduate could get. Further, he was fortunate to participate in the “Cornell, Maryland, Max Planck Pre-doctoral Research School 2020 (CMMRS)” in Saarbruecken, Germany by getting included among the only two undergraduates who were chosen to represent Sri Lanka. He has a key research interest in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction and Machine Learning. For his final year research, he developed a keyboard for Android devices that can suggest adaptive functions based on the current emotion of the user and the context, which enhanced the acceptability and usability of a mobile device. He currently has three (3) international full-paper publications that have been presented at conferences in countries such as Indonesia, Singapore and Sri Lanka.

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