Recent News

2026

• CSUN's DisIQ lab (my self) collaborated on 2 more grant proposals with University of Arizona's CloudHubs lab (Dr Tomas Cerny, along with Dr Nariman Mani) to NSF SaTC 2.0 program for Fall 2026. 🎉 🆕 

• My new proposed new course titled "COMP 444: AI for Engineering Applications" was approved by the department for further processing at the departmental meeting on the 18th September!  🎉 🆕 

• CSUN's DisIQ lab (my self) and University of Arizona's CloudHubs lab (Dr Tomas Cerny, along with Dr Nariman Mani) have submitted 2 collaborative grant proposals to NSF FutureCore SHF program for Fall 2026. 🎉 🆕 

• I've set up my new research lab at CSUN named "DisIQ" (for Distributed Intelligence). 🎉 🆕 

• Our paper titled "On Automated Formal Verification of Authorization Policy in Microservice Systems" has been accepted for publication in Springer Cluster Computing. Big congratulations to Connor Wojtak who put a great effrot in to this research! 🎉 🆕 

• Our paper titled "SENTRY: Drift-Aware Validation Placement for AI Services in the Cloud-Edge Continuum" has been accepted for presentation at CEC Workshops at the 34th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols in Tempe, Arizona. 🎉 🆕 

• I presented our paper along with the AridNova toolkit at the ICSA 2026 on the 24th June at Vrije University Amsterdam! In fact, this is the first time the research community got to see a demonstration of AridNova and for us to recieve feedback (and establksh potential collaborations). 🎉 🆕 

• We filed for the 3rd US Patent! 🎉 

• Our paper titled "Multi-Agent Chage Impact Analysis and Test Optimization for AI-Enabled Software Systems" has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE 20th International Conference on Service Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2026) in Fukuoka, Japan under the Invited Track! 🎉 

• My paper titled "A Neuro-Symbolic Calculus for Quantifying Security Posture in Microservice Architectures" has been accepted for publication in Springer Cluster Computing Journal (Q1)! Link to the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10586-026-06292-6 🎉 

• Our paper titled "Automated Generation of Microservice Authorization Tests Using Large Language Models" has been accepted for presentation at the IEEE 20th International Conference on Service Oriented System Engineering (SOSE 2026) in Fukuoka, Japan. 🎉

• Our start-up AridNova is online as a demo at https://aridnova.net/! If you are interetsed, please try out our live demo!

• I am now a reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers (Q1) journal! 

• I will be a TPC member for CCNC 2027 as well! 

• I submitted a research grant proposal as a Co-Principal Investigator (PI) to Amazon Research Awards: Spring 2026!  

• I was a mentor and judge for Hack Arizona 2026 - a hackathon organized by University of Arizona. More than 130 participants and 30+ teams participated in the competition desiging and developing real world solutions in 24hrs. 

• We recieved seed funding for our start-up AridNova (https://aridnova.net/) from Tech Launch Arizona (TLA)!! 🎉 

• I am now a reviewer for Nature Scientific Reports (Q1) journal! 

• My paper titled "A No-Code Composable Pipeline for Holistic Microservice Assurance" has been accepted for presentation at the prestigious International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA) 2026 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 🎉 

• My paper titled "A Neuro-Symbolic Risk Calculus for Quantifying Security Posture in Microservice Systems" has been accepted for presentation at the International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE) 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland. 🎉 

• Our report titled "Examining Digital Platform Interactions to Assess the Performance of Australian Artists on Algorithmic Playlists" has been published by the Victorian Music Develpment Office (VMDO). In this resarch, I conducted the entire quantitative analysis related to the research questions using more than 1 million records of data extracted from Spotify. The summary of the report can be found here: https://www.vmdo.com.au/dsp-algorithm-research. 

• Two of my papers: "GADM-Oracle: A Domain-Adaptive Oracle for Detecting "Data Bugs" in Enterprise Data Stacks" and "A Holistic Risk Calculus for Microservice Systems using Multi-Source Signal Fusion" has been accepted for presentation at the International Workshop on Data Intensive Software Engineering (DISE) at ACM FSE 2026, to be held in Montreal, Canada. 

• I will be a Program Committee member for 34rd International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD 2026)! 

• I am now a reviewer for Springer Computing journal! 

• I submitted my second research grant proposal as the Principal Investigator (PI) to NSF SaTC program! This is an ambitious yet a foundamental research proposal.  

• Our paper titled "Microservice Logs Analysis Employing AI: A Systematic Literature Review" has been accepted for publication at Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)! Accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2026.112786 

• We filed for another US Patent! 

2025

• I've hit 100 citations in Google Scholar! 

• Lots of updates! During the past 3 months since late July, I have submitted 6 research articles, filed for a US patent, submitted 2 grant proposals,  mentoring 2 PhD students, 1 Masters student, leading a research project involving collaborators from Brazil, Finaland, Italy, and USA, and developing a unique tool which will release soon. 

• Exciting News! I've been nominated for the Most Outsatnding PostDoctoral Researcher at University of Arizona!  🎉 

• I submitted my first research grant proposal as the Principal Investigator (PI) to Amazon Research Awards: Fall 2025!  

• We submitted a grant proposal to NSF SaTC program! I am one of the investigators in the proposed research project.

• I am now a reviewer for Springer Discover Applied Sciences journal!  

• I will be a Technical Program Committee Member for CCNC 2026 conference!  

• I've delivered my first lecture at University of Arizona on the 26th August on "Scrum Methodology"! 

• I've been a volunteer at for IEEE CISOSE 2025 in my first week at University of Arizona! 

• We have released our comprehensive research report on the analysis of Spotify to VMDO! 🎉  This report will be published online soon! 

• It's time to say good bye to both Deakin University and Swinburne University of Technology after 4 lovely years of research and teaching! It's been such a pleasure! I will miss Deakin University a lot consider all the fond memories with friends and not to miss all graduate and undergraduate students at both the universities.  

• Our research article titled "Unlocking Contexual Intelligence - Anywhere, Anytime, and Everywhere", first authored by myself has been accepted to be presented at 2nd Cross Domain Fusion for Mobile Data Workshop at the 26th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2025), to be held in Irvine, California, USA. Accessible here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11058439 

• I am now a reviewer for IEEE Access (https://ieeeaccess.ieee.org) (Q1).  

• I've been offered a PostDoctoral Reseach position at the University of Arizona! 🎉 

• I will be teaching MIS 202 and MIS 770 at Deakin University and COS40007 at Swinburne University of Technology during Trimester 1, 2025.  

• My PhD graduation was on the 10th February 2025. Live Stream: https://vimeo.com/1055085596 

2024

• I conducted a pre-conference workshop for the 9th International Conference on Information Technology Research, on the topic "Enhancing machine intelligence: The role of context-awareness in the IoT system" on the 5th of December 2024 over Zoom.  

• I am now a reviewer for the 9th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR: https://icitr.uom.lk). ICITR was the venue where I got my first publication accepted. 

• I've completed my PhD with the best possible outcome!!!! The mail read: "The degree be awarded without further examination, upon the submission of the final library version of your thesis".  

• My publications passed the 50 citations mark (in fact, they crossed 60 as well)!  

• I've started as a Sessional Research Academic (Professional) at Deakin University, Australia, continuing my work with the Distributed Contextual Intelligence System. I am the Chief Investigator of this project, also supervising a Master's researcher. 

• I am now a reviewer for the Springer Cluster Computing (https://link.springer.com/journal/10586) Journal (Q1) and Springer Journal of Super Computing (https://link.springer.com/journal/11227) Journal (Q2).  

• I've started as a sessional research fellow at the Factory of the Future and as a sessional academic (teaching) in Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. I'm also continuing as a sessional academic (teaching) at Deakin University. 

• I am happy to share that I have  submitted my PhD thesis on the 5th of July 2024, completing 3 years of research in the project.  

• I am now a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE: https://www.comsoc.org/publications/journals/ieee-tnse) Journal (Q1).  

• Our research article titled "Proactive Context Caching Based on Situation Prediction for Real-Time Mobile IoT Applications", first authored by myself has been accepted to be presented at 1st Cross Domain Fusion for Mobile Data Workshop at the 25th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2024), to be held in Brussels, Belgium. Accessible here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10591688.  

• I'll be presenting at the Context and Activity Modeling and Recognition (CoMoReA) workshop of the PerCom '24 conference today (11th March 2024) at Biarritz, France. 

• I will continue to be a part of the IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC) as a Technical Program Committee Member for the IOT: FROM SENSORS TO VERTICAL APPLICATIONS section (https://ccnc2025.ieee-ccnc.org/committees/technical-program-committee). 

• Our journal paper article titled "Reinforcement Learning Based Approaches to Adaptive Context Caching in Distributed Context Management Systems", first authored by myself has been accepted to be published in the prestigious ACM Transactions on Internet of Things! Accessible here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3648571. 

• The seminar on "Adaptively Caching Context Information for Fast Concurrent Access in Internet of Things" was conducted with the attendance of 80 postgradaute students at UCLA on the 11th of January 2024 at the Boelter Hall (where the Internet was born) in Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

• I'll be conducting a seminar at UCLA on the 11th January 2024, on the topic "Adaptively Caching Context Information for Fast Concurrent Access in Internet of Things" in coordination with Prof. Peter Reiher.

• Our research article titled "Improving the usefulness of Context Information for IoT Applications", first authored by myself has been accepted to be presented at CoMoRea (PerCom workshop) 2024. Accessible here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10503179 

2023 

• Our research article titled "Refresh Rate Based Caching and Prefetching Strategies for Internet of Things Middleware" - the work that I carried forward from Dr. Alexey Medvedev, has been accepted and published in the MDPI Sensors Journal. Accessible here: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23218779.  

• I'm happy to share I'll be working as a student volunteer for the 20th EAI Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (MobiQuitous) 2023 conference in Melbourne, Australia. 

• Our paper titled "A Hybrid Approach to Monitor Context Parameters for Optimising Caching for Context-Aware IoT Applications", first authored by Ashish Manchanda and co-authored by myself has been accepted at the EAI MobiQuitous 2023 as a regular paper. Accessible here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63989-0_8.  🆕

• I am part of the IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC)  as a Technical Program Committee Member for the IOT: FROM SENSORS TO VERTICAL APPLICATIONS section (https://ccnc2024.ieee-ccnc.org/committees/technical-program-committee).

• I'm happy to share that the Men's Badminton Team representing Deakin University, that is managed and assistant coached by my self, won the Bronze medal at the UniSports UniNationals Sports Competition. UniNationals is the annual all Australian inter-university sports competition which was held in Gold Coast this year.

• I'm thrilled to announce that me and the team SafePath Innovators, representing Deakin University won the prestigeous SCATS Student Traffic Data Innovations Challenge 2023. This research competition was held at the AWS Center in Sydney on the 15-16th September. Our solution, a context-aware, highly scalable adaptive traffic signalling system won the top prize of "Best Innovation" in the competition.

• Our research paper titled "Towards World Wide Context Management: Architecting Distributed Contextual Intelligence Systems for Real-Time IoT Applications" (led by my self) has been accepted in to the IoT-SenCity 2023 Workshop, which will a be part of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management. Accessible here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MDM58254.2023.00062. 

• I was a part of the 24th Conference on Practical Aspects of and Solutions for Software Engineering, Warsaw, Poland (part of the 18th Conference on Computer Science and Intelligence Systems (FedCSIS) sponsored by IEEE, ComSoc, and MDPI) as an ordinary PC member (https://fedcsis.org/sessions/s3e/kkio/committee). I'd like to thank Adam Przybyłek for inviting me to this conference.

• Our research article titled "Adaptive Context Caching for IoT-based Applications: A Reinforcement Learning Approach" (led by myself) has been accepted and published in the MDPI Sensors Journal. Accessible here: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23104767.

• Had the opportunity to go back to the university that I did my undergraduates University of Moratuwa and conduct an introductory session on "Context Aware Computing" - the area of research that I'm currently investigating in.

• Our paper "Adaptive Context Caching for Efficient Distributed Context Management Systems" (led by myself) was presented on the 28th of March at the 38th ACM/SIGAAP Symposium on Applied Computing under the Mobile Computing and Applications (Distributed Systems) track held at the Tallinn University, Estonia. Accessible here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3555776.3577602.

• It was an absolute pleasure to have worked with and presented my research work in Adaptive Context Caching at the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Computing at University of Stuttgart, Germany. I'd like to acknowledge Prof (Dr.) Christian Becker for the invitation, and sparing time for several valuable discussions and support during my visit. Also, thank you, Dr. Pascal, Dr. Frank, and the entire DB team for the discussions and the interest shown in our work.

• Our article "Context Caching for IoT-based Applications: Opportunities and Challenges" (led by myself) has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Internet of Things Magazine and will appear in the Volume 2 (June 2023).