Experience
Industry Research and Development :
(i) Organization : IBM Research - Tokyo, Japan
Position: Research Scientist
Date: April 2014 - July 2022
Summary:
• Research and development in cloud security
• Project Contributions: Integrity Shield, Kubernetes Operators, Policies for Open Cluster Management and ArgoCD Interlace
• Research and development in IT Service Analytics
• Project Contributions: Internal (see publication)
(ii) Institution: Industrial and Financial Systems Research and Development International (Private) Ltd, Sri Lanka
Position: Software Engineer.
Project: Global Lifecycle support for IFS Application Releases
Date: July 2005 – August 2007
Summary:
• Built software solutions for Distribution and Manufacturing aspects of the IFS Applications (Enterprise Resource Planning System).
• My work eliminated the technical challenges faced by customers as well as improved their QoE.
(iii) Institution: Industrial and Financial Systems Research and Development International (Private) Ltd, Sri Lanka
Position: Intern Solution Developer.
Project: File repository synchronization
Date: July 2004 – January 2005
Summary:
• Designed and developed a solution for the synchronization of file repositories located in different sites of the company
by customizing open source tools.
Academic Research :
(i) Institution: National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Supervisor: Professor Helmut Prendinger
Project: R&D in the Foundations of the 3D Internet
Date: April 2013 - March 2014 (Project Researcher)
Summary:
• Research and development at Prendinger`s Lab
(ii) Institution: National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Supervisor: Professor Helmut Prendinger
Project: R&D in the Foundations of the 3D Internet
Date: April 2010 - March 2013 (Research Assistant)
Summary:
• Research and development at Prendinger`s Lab
(iii) Institution: National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Supervisor: Professor Helmut Prendinger
Project: R&D in the Foundations of the 3D Internet
Date: July 2009 - December 2009 (Internship) / December 2009 - March 2010 (Project Researcher)
Summary:
• Built a collaborative molecular modeling application using Second Life, OpenSimulator and BALLView.
• The application was demoed at Supercomputing conference and led to a publication at SmartGraphics conference.
(iv) Institution: Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand
Supervisor: Professor Peter Haddawy (Vice President, Academic Affairs)
Project: Virtual Reality Based Haptic Enabled Dental Simulation System (Master Thesis).
Date: August 2008 - May 2009
Summary:
• Built a virtual reality based dental simulation system that exploits haptic interaction
with real time manipulation of volumetric 3D tooth model data.
• Made educational impact to dental research and student community at Thamasat University in Thailand.
• Specifically, the dental simulator led several subsequent research activities and publications.
• Funded by a grant from the National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand.
(vi) Institution: University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
Supervisor: Dr A.R. Weerasinghe (Director - UCSC)
Project: Automatic Word Class Identifier for Tamil Language (Bachelor Thesis).
Date: Dec 2004 - May 2005
Summary:
• Built an automated word class identification system which could find out word categories from the real text in Tamil language
• Evaluated the accuracy of the system by verifying the generated language models that represent the word clusters.
Other IT Experiences:
(i) Institution: Computer science and Information Management Program at AIT
Supervisor: Dr. Paul Janecek (Coordinator)
Position: Research Assistant
Date: May 2008 – July 2008
Summary:
• Assisted the research work in developing knowledge management toolkit (KMTk)
• The toolkit enhanced collaboration among members of the Greater Mekong Sub-region Energy and Environment Network.
(ii) Institution: Help Desk at AIT
Supervisor: Dr. Harianto (Head)
Position: Technical Assistant
Date: May 2008 – April 2009
Summary:
• Monitored internal network of AIT and provided technical support to AIT community users via phone, email and in person.