- 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 -2023
Theory of Computing -Undergraduate -2023
Advanced Algorithms -Undergraduate -2023
Advanced Algorithms -Postgraduate -2023
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 (2013 To date)
Student Counsellor -Student Counselor (2006 To date)
Warden of Student Hostel -Administrative in-charge of matters related to student hostels at the University (2017 To 2019)
Research Coordinator of CSE Department - Coordinating postgraduate research activities in the Dept, represents the Dept at Faculty Higher Degree Committee (2017 To 2018)
Director, OTS -Starting in 2018, Director of Operational Technical Secretariat, OTS, of the University for the world-bank funded AHEAD project. (2017 To 2021)
Director, QBITS Lab - This is the Lab funded by CodeGen International for funded R&D work (2017 To date)
Chairman, Center for Open and Distance Learnng (CODL) - Administering delivery of external degree programs, conducting examinations, managing resource persons and support staff (2009 To 2011)
Research Coordinator of CSE Department -Coordinating postgraduate research activities in the Dept, represents the Dept at Faculty Higher Degree Committee (2006 To 2009)
Head of Department - Administrative activities in the Department (2004 To 2005)
Acting Director, OTS, AHEAD Project -From March - June, as the Director Prof Shantha Fernando went on sabbatical leave. (2024 To 2024)
Research Activities
* High performance computing
* Parallel computing
* Natural Language Processing (NLP)
* High performance computing * Parallel computing * Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Sinhala, Tamil
Education and Professional Affiliations
Bachelors, University of Moratuwa ,1993 , BSc Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering, First Class Honours
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ,2003 , PhD in Computer Science
Masters, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) ,1997 , MSc in Computer Science
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*
Pubudu Ekanayake, Subha Fernando, Ranga Rodrigo, Sanath Jayasena,".AI Based Solution to Optimize the Fertilizer Composition in Hydroponics Agriculture.",15th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing,Zhuhai China,2023,158 - 164
Vinura Dhananjaya, Piyumal Demotte, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena ,".BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text Classification.",Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC),Marseille, France,2022,7377β7385
Chinthaka Weerakkody, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura,".Guaranteeing Service Level Agreements for Triangle Counting via Observation-based Admission Control Algorithm.",2022 IEEE 15th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD),Barcelona, Spain,2022,283β288
Budvin Edippuliarachchi, Damika Gamlath, Ruchin Amaratunga, Gunavaran Brihadiswaran, Sanath Jayasena,".Quill: A Memory Efficient k-mer Counting and k-mer Querying Tool for Commodity Clusters.",14th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology (ICBBT),Xi'an, China,2022,79-88
Kasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Alex Xavier, Dumindu Tissera, Sanath Jayasena, Subha Fernando,".Effect of Dialogue Structure and Memory on Language Emergence in a Multi-task Game.",13th International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence (ICCCI 2021),Rhodes, Greece,2021,212β224
Gunavaran Brihadiswaran, Sanath Jayasena,".Frigate: a fast, in-memory tool for counting and querying k-mers.",13th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology,Xiβan, China,2021,134-140
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
Vinura Dhananjaya, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena,".Lexicon-based fine-tuning of multilingual language models for low-resource language sentiment analysis.",CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology,2024/9,2024
Kasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Alex Xavier, Dumindu Tissera, Sanath Jayasena, Subha Fernando,".Accelerating language emergence by functional pressures.",PLoS ONE,18(12),2023
Dumindu Tissera, Kasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Alex Xavier, Sanath Jayasena, Subha Fernando, Ranga Rodrigo,".Neural mixture models with expectation-maximization for end-to-end deep clustering.",Neurocomputing,505,2022
S. Yashothara, R. T. Uthayasanker, G. V. Dias, S. Jayasena,".Semi-Automatic Alignment of Multilingual Parts of Speech Tagsets.",Computacion y Sistemas,Vol 26, No 3 (2022),2022
Madushi Sarathchandra, Chulani Karandana, Winma Heenatigala, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena,".Resource aware scheduler for distributed stream processing in cloud native environments.",Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience,33 / 20,2021
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
Arosha Rodrigo, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena ,".Latency-aware secure elastic stream processing with homomorphic encryption.",Data Science and Engineering ,4 (2019),2019
H. M. C. M. Maldeni, Sanath Jayasena,".Information and Communication Technology Usage and Bank Branch Performance.",The International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions,Vol 2, No 2 (2009),2009
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