Achievements

Industry Awards (IBM)

• Open Source Significant Contributor Award. (December 2021)

• Corporate Technical Award - one of IBM's top technical recognition. (April 2020).

• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. (April 2019)

• Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. (April 2018)

• Tokyo Lab Technical Master Award. (January 2017)

• Regional Journal of Eminence Award. (September 2016)

• Research Division Award. (April 2016)

Awards:

• Best paper award at IEEE International Conference on Services Computing. (July 2018)

• 1st place of SemEval-2018 Task 8 at 12th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. (June 2018)

• Finalist in Best Cluster Paper Award - Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS). (November 2016)

• Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing - Award by the Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering Journal . ( June 2015)

• SOKENDAI Research Award - Award by the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Tokyo, Japan. ( March 2014)

• Best Master Thesis Prize in Information and Communications Technologies - Asian Institute of Technology. (May 2009)

• Best paper award by the South East Asia Association for Dental Education. ( November 2009)

Scholarships & Fellowships:

• MOU Fellowship - Outright grant for doctoral studies at the National Institute of Informatics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan(2010 - 2013)

• HM Thailand King Full Scholarship for graduate studies. (2007 - 2009)

• Sri Lanka Ministry of Education – Mahapola Merit Scholarship for undergraduate studies (2001 - 2005), awarded for all island high scores at the GCE (A/L) Examination. (August 2000)

• Sri Lanka Ministry of Education – Scholarship for secondary education. (1993 - 2000)

Honors & Grant:

• The Short-Stay Study Abroad Program - Competitive grant provided by the Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan. (February 2012 - March 2012)

• Grant for Visiting Researcher Position at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. (January 2010 – March 2010)

• Grant for International Internship Position at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. (July 2009 – December 2009)