Dr. Charika Weerasiriwardhane

Dr. Charika Weerasiriwardhane

Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade)

FACULTY OF COMPUTING | COMPUTER SCIENCE & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

  • Doctoral Candidate (March 2013-January 2017) School of Information Technologies The University of Sydney
  • Researcher (2013-2015) Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence(NICTA)
  • Casual Academic (2014-2015) Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR) University of Sydney
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate (March 2017-December 2019)  Australian Centre for Field Robotics(ACFR), University of Sydney
Academic Qualifications

University of Sydney, School of Information Technologies , Sydney ,Australia

Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence(NICTA), ATP Research Laboratory,Sydney PhD in Engineering and IT, (Machine Learning), June 2013 – January 2017 Thesis Topic: Multz Modal Learning For Adaptive Scene Understanding Advisor: Dr.Fabio Ramos

University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Engineering,Sri Lanka Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Honors) May 2007-November 2011 Specialized in Mechanical Engineering

 

Honors and Awards
  • The NICTA International Postgraduate Award(NIPA)(2013-2014)
  • The NICTA Research Project Award(NRPA)(2013-2014)
Interests
  • Intelligent vehicles
  • Adaptive learning of image classification based on probabilistic graphical models
  • Robot vision (2D and 3D data fusion, uncertainty estimation)
Memberships

Professional Engineer ( Mechanical) Skill Level 1 assessed by Engineers Australia

My Publications