- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering
- Associate Professor
Contact information
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Programming Fundamentals -Undergraduate -2016
Theory of Computing -Undergraduate -2016
Advanced Algorithms -Undergraduate -2016
Scientific Computing -Undergraduate -2016
Advanced Algorithms -Postgraduate -2016
Engineering Faculty Representative in the Senate -Engineering Faculty Representative in the Senate (2015 To date)
Represent the CSE Dept at QA Cell of the Engineering Faculty -Quality assurance (2015 To 2017)
Coordindator -Coordindator for Pre-Academic Term & Semester 1 (2015 Intake) (2015 To 2016)
Coordindator -Coordindator for Pre-Academic Term & Semester 1 (2016 Intake) (2016 To 2016)
Student Counsellor -Student Counselor (2008 To date)
Warden of Student Hostel - Administrative in-charge of matters related to student hostels at the University (2017 To date)
Research Coordinator - Coordinating postgraduate research activities in the Dept, represents the Dept at Faculty Higher Degree Committee (2017 To date)
Director, OTS -Starting in 2018, Director of Operational Technical Secretariat, OTS, of the University for the world-bank funded AHEAD project (2017 To date)
Director, QBITS Lab - This is the Lab funded by CodeGen International for funded R&D work (2017 To date)
Research Activities
Education and Professional Affiliations
Bachelor's, University of Moratuwa ,1993
Masters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ,1997
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ,2003
Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL)(2011 To date)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)(2012 To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
Award of SRC Long-term Research Grant (Received 2016)
Publications*
Anuradha Karunarathna, Dinika Senarath, Shalika Madhushanki, Chinthaka Weerakkody, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura,".Scalable graph convolutional network based link prediction on a distributed graph database server.",2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD),Beijing, China (held Virtually),2020,107-115
D. Senevirathne, I. Wijesiri, S. Dehigaspitiya, M. Dayarathna, S. Jayasena and T. Suzumura,".Memory Efficient Graph Convolutional Network based Distributed Link Prediction.",2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data),Atlanta, GA, USA,2020,2977-2986
Tharindu Madusanka, Durashi Langappuli, Thisara Welmilla, Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Sanath Jayasena,".Dialog policy optimization for low resource setting using Self-play and Reward based Sampling.",34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation,Hanoi, Vietnam,2020,178--187
D. Senevirathne, I. Wijesiri, S. Dehigaspitiya, M. Dayarathna, S. Jayasena and T. Suzumura,".Memory Efficient Graph Convolutional Network based Distributed Link Prediction.",2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data),Atlanta, GA, USA,2020,2977-2986
T Mokanarangan, T Pranavan, U Megala, N Nilusija, G Dias, S Jayasena, S Ranathunga,".Tamil Morphological Analyzer Using Support Vector Machines.",International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems,Salford, United Kingdom,2016,15-23
Megala Uthayakumar, Pranavan Theivendiram, Nilusija Nadarasamoorthy, Mokanarangan Thayaparan, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias and Surangika Ranathunga,".Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) for Tamil Language Using Margin-Infused Relaxed Algorithm (MIRA).",International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2016),Turkey,2016,
Riyafa Abdul Hameed, Nadeeshani Pathirennehelage, Anusha Ihalapathirana,Maryam Ziyad Mohamed, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias andSandareka Fernando,".Automatic Creation of a Sentence Aligned Sinhala-Tamil Parallel Corpus.",Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP 2016)),Japan,2016,
Sandareka Fernando, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias,".Comprehensive Part-Of-Speech Tag Set and SVM Based POS Tagger for Sinhala.",Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP 2016),Japan,2016,
Vimuth Fernando, Milinda Fernando, Tharindu Rusira, Sanath Jayasena,".Enhancing X10 Performance by Auto-Tuning the Managed Java Back-end.",International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer) 2016,Sri Lanka,2016,
Miyuru Dayarathna, Isuru Herath, Yasima Dewmini, Gayan Mettananda, Sameera Nandasiri, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura,".Acacia-RDF: An X10-Based Scalable Distributed RDF Graph Database Engine.",IEEE 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2016,San Fransisco, USA,2016,
Miyuru Dayarathna, Isuru Herath, Yasima Dewmini, Gayan Mettananda, Sameera Nandasiri, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura,".Introducing Acacia-RDF: An X10-Based Scalable Distributed RDF Graph Database Engine.",IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, 2016,Chicago, USA,2016,
HMD Eranjith, ID Fernando, GKS Fernando, WCM Soysa, VSD Jayasena,".A visualization and analysis platform for performance tuning.",Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2016,Sri Lanka,2016,72-77
K Sundararajah, S Jayasena,".Model-based input-adaptive vectorization.",Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2016,Sri Lanka,2016,66-71
SAPM Manamini, AF Ahamed, RAEC Rajapakshe, GHA Reemal, S Jayasena, GV Dias, S Ranathunga,".Ananya-a Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) system for Sinhala language.",Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2016,Sri Lanka,2016,30-35
Lakshika Kavmini, Thilini Dinushika, Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Sanath Jayasena,".Improved speech command classification system for sinhala language based on automatic speech recognition.",International Journal of Asian Language Processing,Volume 30, Issue 02 (June 2020),2020
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