Biography
M.A.P. Chamikara is a 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 a merit award from NSW 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, EORICS, AsiaCCS, 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
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2021
Ph.D. in Computer Science
RMIT University, Australia -
2015
M.Phil. in Computer Science
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Professional Experiences
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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
ORCID 0000-0002-4286-3774