Curriculum Vitae

Data Scientist

September 2023 - Present

Honda Research Institute Japan

• Contributing to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) lab projects
• Developing facilitator robot for enhanced social interactions
• Working with EEG processing, LLM, and Computer Vision

Special Research Staff

April 2021 - September 2023

University of Aizu, Japan

• Analyzing 3D point clouds for indoor mobile robot path planning
• Working with PCL, Choreonoid, and ROS
• Developing simulation environments for point cloud data generation

Research Assistant

April 2020 - March 2021

University of Aizu, Japan - Image Processing Lab

• Developed indoor multi-robot path planning algorithm
• Collaborated with robotics companies
• Worked with ROS, Turtlebot3, OpenCV, and SLAM

Research Assistant

April 2017 - March 2020

University of Aizu, Japan - Computer Arts Lab

• Developed EEG-based identification and authentication system
• Created musical relaxation soundscape using reinforcement learning
• Utilized various EEG devices and frameworks (EMOTIV, OpenBCI, MATLAB)

Senior Software Engineer

March 2015 - November 2015

RS Metrics Asia (Pvt) Ltd.

• Developed stock market prediction system using satellite imagery
• Implemented statistical analysis techniques
• Worked with Yii PHP, Java Hibernate, Angular, and Microservices

Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering

2017 - 2021

University of Aizu, Japan

M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering

2016 - 2017

University of Aizu, Japan

B.Sc. Special Degree in Computing and Information Systems

2011 - 2015

Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

Electronics, Communication and Computer Engineering Part I, II

2010 - 2012

The Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL)