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Academic Qualifications

  • 2023

    Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Technology Sydney, Australia

  • 2018

    Honours Degree of Bachelor of the Science of Engineering
    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Achievements and Awards

  • 2022-2022

    Winner of the faculty-level three-minute (3MT) thesis competition
    University of Technology Sydney

  • 2022-2022

    Winner of the School of Mechanical and Mechatronic research showcase under the pre-recorded video category
    University of Technology Sydney

  • 2022-2022

    Runner-up at the bushfire grand challenge masterclass held at the “Next Generation AI and Emerging Technologies Symposium” hosted by Data61 | CSIRO for the solution
    CSIRO

  • 2020-2020

    Best student paper - nomination
    16th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV)

Current Roles

  • CERC Postdoctoral Fellow
    Research, collaborations, supervision on enhancing human-robot communication, learning from human feedback and user intention estimation using multimodal generative models and probabilistic modelling.

Professional Experiences

  • 2019-2023

    Casual Academic Roles
    Swinburne University of Technology, University of Technology Sydney, University of Moratuwa

  • 2020-2022

    Postgraduate Student Engagement Officer
    Women in Engineering and IT, UTS

  • 2017-2017

    Visiting Researcher
    University of Technology Sydney