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
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2021
Ph.D. in Computer Science
RMIT University, Australia -
2015
M.Phil. in Computer Science
University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
Achievements and Awards
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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
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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
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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