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Biography

M.A.P. Chamikara is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO’s Data61 and is also affiliated with the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) in Australia. He received his Ph.D. from RMIT University, Australia. For his Ph.D. work, he was awarded the Research Achievement Award for outstanding research performance by the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University and the RMIT Prize for Research Excellence – Higher Degree by Research (Technology). Before joining CSIRO's Data61, Chamikara was a lecturer at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. He earned both his M.Phil. and B.Sc. Honours in Computer Science from the same university. Chamikara has received multiple awards for his work at CSIRO, including the Science Excellence Award, the Collaboration Award, and the Customer First Award in the Software and Computational Systems program. His contributions to CSIRO have also earned national recognition, including merit awards from NSW and Victoria iAwards, and nominations from the NSW iAwards and the National iAwards, Australia. His research has been accepted and published in highly reputable venues such as AAAI, WWW, ASE, EORICS, AsiaCCS, CIKM, IEEE IoT, IEEE Industrial Informatics, and Information Sciences. His research interests include data privacy, distributed privacy-preserving machine learning, explainable AI, and human-centric cyber security.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2021

    Ph.D. in Computer Science
    RMIT University, Australia

  • 2015

    M.Phil. in Computer Science
    University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Achievements and Awards

  • 2023-2024

    Victoria iAwards Merit Award
    Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)

  • 2023-2024

    SCS Engineering and Technology
    CSIRO's Data61

  • 2022-2023

    NSW iAwards finalist
    Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)

  • 2022-2023

    SCS Customer First award
    CSIRO's Data61

  • 2022-2023

    SCS Science Excellence Award
    CSIRO's Data61

  • 2021-2022

    NSW iAwards Merit Award
    Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA)

  • 2021-2022

    SCS Customer First Award
    CSIRO's Data61

  • 2021-2022

    SCS Collaboration Award
    CSIRO's Data61

  • 2020-2021

    DSS group high achievement award
    CSIRO's Data61

  • 2019-2020

    DSS group high achievement award
    CSIRO's Data61

  • 2021-2022

    RMIT Prize for Research Excellence – Higher Degree by Research (Technology)
    RMIT University, Australia

  • 2021-2022

    Research Achievement Award for outstanding research performance at the School of Computing
    RMIT University, Australia

Current Roles

  • Research Lead
    Research leadership for the AD:EPT (also known as PIF) project (A CSCRC project)

  • Project and Research Lead
    The project and research leadership for the PPTA project (A CSCRC project)

Fields of Research

Professional Experiences

  • 2022-Current

    Research Scientist
    CSIRO

  • 2020-2022

    Postdoctoral Fellow
    CSIRO

  • 2014-2017

    Lecturer
    University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

  • 2011-2014

    Research Assistant
    University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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