Dr. Charika Weerasiriwardhane
August 8, 2023 2023-08-09 13:01
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