Doctor of Philosophy, Human-Robot Interaction
Mar 2024 - Present
University of Canberra, Australia
Dissertation on Social Presence Modulation: enabling robots to read their social environment in real time and dynamically adjust how present or engaged they appear, structured around context sensing, attention regulation, and presence modulation. Supervised by Prof. Damith Herath, Dr. Maleen Jayasuriya, and A/Prof. Janie Busby Grant.
Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science
Dec 2016 - Dec 2020
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Colombo, Sri Lanka
First class division, GPA 3.70. Major in Computer Science, minors in Mathematics and Statistics. Four year full time degree program. Honours research project on detecting driver drowsiness through constant monitoring of driver motion using machine learning and image processing techniques, awarded an A- grade in recognition of the research and presentation work.
Certificate Program in IT Applications
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Kandy, Sri Lanka