Education

• The University of Melbourne (October 2021 - Present)

  • Ph.D. Candidate

  • Supervisors - Prof. Shanika Karunasekera, Prof. Christopher Leckie, Dr. Zainab R. Zaidi

• University of Moratuwa (November 2014 - December 2018)

  • B.Sc. Engineering (Hons.)

  • GPA - 3.84/4.20

• Maliyadeva College (January 2000 - August 2013)

  • G.C.E. Advanced Level - 3 distinctions (physical science stream)

    • District (Kurunegla) 1st, Country 30th

Work Experience

• Consultant Software Engineer (October 2020 - Present)

  • Django, Flutter, C++, PostgreSQL

• Monash University - Casual Tutor (May 2024 - March 2024)

  • Computer Networks (FIT3165, FIT4165)

  • Conducting tutoring and laboratory sessions

• National University of Singapore - Research Assistant (Under Prof. Gary Tan) (May 2019 - October 2020)

  • Project - SMART-FM's Simmobility simulation

  • Area - Improving performance in mid-term simulation

  • Results - More than 80% overall improvement for extreme configurations

  • C++, PostgreSQL

• University of Moratuwa - Junior Consultant (January 2019 - May 2019)

  • Teaching assitance for Programming Fundamentals (CS1032) and Advanced Algorithms (CS4522)

• University of Moratuwa - Teaching Assistant (August 2018 - December 2018)

  • Data structures and algorithms (CS2022)

• Arimac Lanka - Software Engineering Intern (June 2017 - December 2017)

  • Blanzed, Omi, Downfall - mobile games

  • NQ - A quiz game for windows

  • Unity3D, C#, NodeJS, MongoDB

Publications

• Using Causality to Infer Coordinated Attacks in Social Media (2024)

  • Isura Manchanayaka, Zainab R. Zaidi, Shanika Karunasekera, Christopher Leckie

  • Accepted for International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 25)

• Identifying Coordinated Activities on Online Social Networks Using Contrast Pattern Mining (2024)

  • Isura Manchanayaka, Zainab R. Zaidi, Shanika Karunasekera, Christopher Leckie

  • In proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 24)

• Sentylic at IEST 2018: Gated recurrent neural network and capsule network based approach for implicit emotion detection (2018)

  • Prabod Rathnayaka, Supun Abeysinghe, Chamod Samarajeewa, Isura Manchanayake, Malaka Walpola

  • In proceedings of 9th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis

• Enhancing Decision Making Capacity in Tourism Domain Using Social Media Analytics (2018)

  • Prabod Rathnayaka, Supun Abeysinghe, Chamod Samarajeewa, Isura Manchanayake, Malaka Walpola, Rashmika Nawaratne, Tharindu Bandaragoda, Damminda Alahakoon

• Gated Recurrent Neural Network Approach for Multilabel Emotion Detection in Microblogs (2018)

  • Supun Abeysinghe, Isura Manchanayake, Chamod Samarajeewa, Prabod Rathnayaka, Malaka J. Walpola, Rashmika Nawaratne, Tharindu Bandaragoda, Damminda Alahakoon

  • In proceedings of International Conference in ICT for Emerging Regions

Personal Projects

• Munch Engine

  • A game engine using C++ OpenGL

  • Supports PBR materials

  • Github

• Munch Renderer

  • A renderer similar to OpenGL but only using bitmap drawing functions of Direct2D

  • Github

• Munch Compiler

  • A compiler for a programming language with order independent declarations and the syntax nearly equal to C

  • Github

Projects

• Capturing discussion pathways and deeper analysis of sentiments and emotions in social media posts (January 2018 - December 2018)

  • Objective - To develop an automated tool that can extract data from review websites and generate the following insights

    • Discussion pathway identification

    • Aspect based sentiment analysis

    • Emotion detection

  • Team members : Supun Abeysinghe, Prabod Rathnayake, Chamod Samarajeewa

  • Github

• Information Retrieval Project (June 2018 - July 2018)

  • Scraping documents from web (house advertisements in HitAd.lk)

  • Using tokenizing, possessive filtering, porter’s stemming, spell correction, tf-idf scoring modules in Solr

  • Building a search index based on expected queries

• Blanzed - a mobile game for Arimac Digital (July 2017 - December 2017)

  • Typical checkers game as a mobile app

  • A game consisting both single player and multiplayer (sockets) with a powerful bot for single player

  • Role : Complete client-side and multi-player server development, UI/UX design, animation design/implementation

  • Team members : Miyuru Eranda, Malki Botejeu, Dinushanka Ramawickrama

  • Google Play

Accomplishments

• IEEEXtreme 12.0 (October 2018)

  • Team - NoNameYet

  • Result - World 60th Country 1st

• MoraXtreme 3.0 (October 2018)

  • Team - KannaAwe

  • Result - University 1st

• International Mathematics Competitions - Bulgaria (July 2017)

  • Result - Honorable mention

• MoraXtreme 1.0 (September 2016)

  • Team - NoNameYet

  • Result - University 1st

• International Mathematics Competitions - Bulgaria (July 2016)

  • Result - Honorable mention

• IEEEXtreme 9.0 (October 2015)

  • Team - BB8

  • Result - World 31st Country 1st

• International Mathematics Olympiad - Argentina (July 2012)

  • Result - Honorable mention

• Sri Lankan Mathematics Competition (April 2012)

  • Result - Country 2nd

Awards

• University awards (University of Moratuwa) - IEEEXtreme 9.0 achievement (2016)

Voluntary Services

• IEEE talk on IEEEXtreme preparation in Open University Sri Lanka (September 2018)

• ACM talk on IEEEXtreme preparation in University of Moratuwa (August 2018)

• One of the problem authors of MoraXtreme 2.0 (September 2017)

• One of the problem authors of CodeExperts 4.0 (April 2017)

• Rotaract Club - Active member, graphic designer, video editor. Chairperson of the logo competition project in May 2015 (2015 - 2018)