About me

• My main areas of expertise: Developing machine learning and deep learning algorithms
• Technical Skills: Python, R, SQL, Hadoop platform
• Machine Learning / Deep Learning Frameworks: TensorFlow, Keras and Scikit-learn
• Holding Australian and Sri Lankan Citizenships since 2016

Available for new machine learning opportunities

• Feel free to download my resume, or visit my LinkedIn
• I can be contacted by ahilan.eng (at) gmail (dot) com

Honours and awards

• Senior Member of the IEEE (Since Nov 2018)
• ICT Researcher of the Year by SEARCC Global ICT Awards (2018)
• ICT Researcher of the Year Award by Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) (2018)
• NVIDIA GPU grant (2018)
• Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association New Researcher Award (2014)
• The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA) Travel Award (2013)

Fellowship and research grants

• Visiting Researcher (India Science & Research Fellowship), Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (Jan 2019 - Apr 2019)
• Visiting Researcher, SAIVT Lab, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Mar 2018 - Present)
• University research grant (2018 - 2019)
• Researcher, SAIVT Lab, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Nov 2014- Sep 2016)
• Visiting Researcher (European Commission Marie Curie ITN BBfor2 network), Biometric Recognition Group ATVS, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain (Nov 2012 - Apr 2013)
• Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC) postgraduate scholarship (2010)