CAREER SUMMARY
- Currently working as a Senior Lecturer (HG) at the Dept. of Software Engineering, Faculty of Computing
- Worked as a Research Engineer at LirneAsia
- Worked as a Software Engineer for 7 years.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Complex Systems, University of Sydney
- MSc in Computer Science, University of Colombo
- BSc in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- Nework science
- Game theory
- Machine learning
- Information theory
- Distributed Systems
- Parallel computing
Research Clusters
Software Systems & Technologies (SST)
Driving innovation in software engineering, high-performance computing, and scalable architectures to build robust, next-generation applications and systems.
Centre of Excellence for AI (CEAI)
A multidisciplinary initiative advancing AI research in machine learning, NLP, and big data analytics to solve complex global challenges and drive intelligent decision-making.
Robotics and Autonomous Systems
Advancing autonomous systems and robotic technologies for industrial, healthcare, and exploratory applications through AI-driven innovation.
PUBLICATIONS
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Emergence of scale-free characteristics in socio-ecological systems with bounded rationality
Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mahendra Piraveenan, “Scientific Reports”
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Topological stability of evolutionarily unstable strategies
Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mahendra Piraveenan, (IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS))
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The performance of page rank algorithm under degree preserving perturbations
Upul Senanayake, Peter Szot, Mahendra Piraveenan, Dharshana Kasthurirathna, (IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence (FOCI))
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Optimisation of strategy placements for public good in complex networks
Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Harrison Nguyen, Mahendra Piraveenan, Shahadat Uddin, Upul Senanayake, (International Conference on Social Computing)
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Influence of topology in the evolution of coordination in complex networks under information diffusion constraints
Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mahendra Piraveenan, Michael Harré, “The European Physical Journal B”