Curriculum Vitae
Education
2020 - : Yale University
PhD candidate in Computer Science
Master of Science in Computer Science (2022)
Master of Philosophy in Computer Science (expected 2023 December)
2017 - 2020 : Rice University
Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
2010 - 2015 : University of Moratuwa
Bachelor of the Science in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
(Rank 2 out of 100 students)
Professional Experience
FPGA engineering Intern (2023) at Qblox
Implemented a distributed union find decoder inside Qblox stack
Software Engineering Intern (2019) at Google
Worked on FPGA-based application acceleration
Associate Architect (2017 ), Electronic Engineer (2015 - 2017) at ParaQum Technologies (Pvt.) Ltd
Led a team of engineers that designed and developed a real-time all-intra HD HEVC encoder on FPGA
Worked on developing a 4K real-time FPGA-based HEVC decoder to support higher profiles
Worked on developing FPGA-based HEVC - Screen content coding encoder
Application Engineer (Consultancy basis) (2015 - 2017) at Wave Computing
Mapped machine learning algorithms to wave data-flow architecture (novel coarse-grained reconfigurable architecture) using in-house programming tools
Trainee Associate Electronic Engineer (2013-2014) at Zone 24x7 (Pvt.) Ltd
Designed handwriting pre-processing software to be integrated with a computer vision-based check processing library and a computer vision-based information extraction library. This work was judged as the best industrial training project in the Electronics and Telecommunication Category by the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka for the year 2014
Honors and Awards
IBM Engineering Scholarship (2013) : Awarded by University of Moratuwa to the student with highest GPA in all level 2 subjects (around 650 students).
Migara Ranatunga Trust Award (2015) : Awarded by Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka for the Best Industrial Training Project (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)
“Mahapola” Merit Scholarship (2010) : Four year scholarship awarded by government of Sri Lanka for high achievers in GCE Advanced Level examination. (Ranked 14th in Sri Lanka)
‘Sisu Udana Kusalatha Pranama’ scholarship (2007) : Two year scholarship awarded for high achievers at the GCE Ordinary Level Examination