Assistant Professor

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

  • Journal Publications 2015

    Emergence of scale-free characteristics in socio-ecological systems with bounded rationality

    Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mahendra Piraveenan, “Scientific Reports”

  • Conference Proceedings 2014

    Topological stability of evolutionarily unstable strategies

    Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Mahendra Piraveenan, (IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Autonomous Learning Systems (EALS))

  • Conference Proceedings 2014

    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))

  • Conference Proceedings 2014

    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)

  • Journal Publications 2018

    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”

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