Ms Nishadi Kirielle

I am a research enthusiast in Data Science with a passion to help people integrate data with scalable solutions. 

I am a PhD student at the Australian National University where my research topic is on the development of efficient and scalable algorithms to link records of personal data. Currently, I am working on modeling the record linkage problem with graphs to exploit the relationships between records and propagate information between linking decisions to obtain high-quality links with unsupervised learning techniques. Due to the often very large data sets used in record linkage, blocking techniques, as well as temporal and geographical constraints, often need to be incorporated to reduce the problem space. Furthermore, I plan to investigate how to best parallelize the linkage algorithms and techniques I am developing in my PhD research.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer and Science Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2017)

Work Experience

  • PMC Member and Committer, Apache Gora Project, Apache Software Foundation (Sept 2017- Present)

  • Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Lanka Private Limited, Sri Lanka (Jan 2019 - Feb 2019)

  • Software Engineer, WSO2 Lanka Private Limited, Sri Lanka (April 2017 – Dec 2018)

  • Google Summer of Code Mentor, Apache Software Foundation (Feb 2018 - Sept 2018)

 

  • Record Linkage

  • Parallel Algorithms

  • Data Mining

  • University Research Scholarship (International) Full-Time, The Australian National University (Feb 2019 - Feb 2022)

  • ANU HDR Fee Merit Scholarship, The Australian National University (Feb 2019 - Feb 202)

  • Dean’s List in Semesters; 1,3,7 & 8 Undergraduate, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (May 2013 - April 2017)

  • Higher Education Merit Scholarship for Undergraduate Studies, Government of Sri Lanka. (May 2013 - April 2017)

  • All island 90th place, GCE Advanced Level examination Sri Lanka, (August 2011)

     

Education

  • Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer and Science Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2017)

Work Experience

  • PMC Member and Committer, Apache Gora Project, Apache Software Foundation (Sept 2017- Present)

  • Senior Software Engineer, WSO2 Lanka Private Limited, Sri Lanka (Jan 2019 - Feb 2019)

  • Software Engineer, WSO2 Lanka Private Limited, Sri Lanka (April 2017 – Dec 2018)

  • Google Summer of Code Mentor, Apache Software Foundation (Feb 2018 - Sept 2018)

 

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