- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Computer Science & Engineering
- Senior Lecturer Grade II
Contact information
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
HOD - Head of the Department, CSE (2023 To date)
Director DataSEARCH - Director DataSEARCH multi-disciplinary research centre at the University of Moratuwa (2023 To date)
Research Activities
Natural Language Processing
Machine Learning
Data-Driven Decision Making
Education and Professional Affiliations
PhD, University of Georgia (USA) ,2013 Major : Computer Science Minor : Stats
Bachelors, University of Moratuwa ,2006 BSc Eng Electronics & Telecom
IEEE(2002 To date)
IESL(2017 To date)
Career
Semester Coordinator S2 2001
MSC coordinator: DS & AI 2001
Honours and Awards
Publications*
Rubika Murugathas, Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Domain specific Named Entity Recognition in Tamil.",2022 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2022,1-6
Isham Mohamed Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Low Resource Multi-ASR Speech Command Recognition.",2022 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2022,1-6
S Balakrishnan, K Jathusan, U Thayasivam,".End To End Model For Speaker Identification With Minimal Training Data.",Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2021,456-461
Jayasinghe, H., Jayatilaka, T., Gunawardena, R., & Thayasivam, U,".Data-Driven Simulation of Ride-Hailing Services Using Imitation and Reinforcement Learning.",International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,2021,41-52
Vasantharajan, C., & Thayasivam, U.,".Hypers@ DravidianLangTech-EACL2021: Offensive language identification in Dravidian code-mixed YouTube comments and posts.",16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics,Virtual,2021,195-202
Sivapiran Sanjeepan, Vasantharajan,CharanganSend , Uthayasanker Thayasivam ,".Sentiment Analysis in Dravidian Code-Mixed YouTube Comments and Posts.",CEUR Workshop Proceedings,Virtual,2021,1077 โ 1084
Kumaran Kugathasan Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Retrieval-based End-to-End Tamil language Conversational Agent for Closed Domain using Machine Learning.",2021 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval (NLPIR),Sanya China,2021,141--145
Anosha Ignatius Uthayasanker Thayasivam ,".Speaker-Invariant Speech-to-Intent Classification for Low-Resource Languages.",Speech and Computer. SPECOM 2021, ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA,2021,Pages 279โ290
Thilakshi Fonseka, Rashmini Naranpanawa, Ravinga Perera, Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".English to sinhala neural machine translation.",2020 International Conference on Asian Language Processing (IALP),Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,2020,305-309
Jarsigan Vickneswaran, Piruntha Navanesan, Vahesan Vijayaratnam, Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Simplified Approach for Predicting Emotions of Multi-Turn Textual Utterances.",2020 20th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer),Colombo, Sri Lanka,2020,71-76
Tharindu Madusanka, Durashi Langappuli, Thisara Welmilla, Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Sanath Jayasena,".Dialog policy optimization for low resource setting using Self-play and Reward based Sampling.",Proceedings of the 34th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation,VNU University of Science, Hanoi,2020,178-187
Nivetha Yogendran, Abivarshi Kanagarajah, Kularajini Chandiran, Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Hybrid Approach for Accurate and Interpretable Representation Learning of Knowledge Graph.",2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),Moratuwa Sri Lanka,2020,1-6
Hemanthage S Bhathiya, Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Meta learning for few-shot joint intent detection and slot-filling.",Proceedings of the 2020 5th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies,New York; NY; United States,2020,86-92
Thejan Wijesinghe, Chamath Abeysinghe, Chanuka Wijayakoon, Lahiru Jayathilake, Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".FlowChroma-A Deep Recurrent Neural Network for Video Colorization.",International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Pรณvoa de Varzim, Portugal.,2020,16-29
Charangan Vasantharajan Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Towards Offensive Language Identification for Tamil Code-Mixed YouTube Comments and Posts.",SN Computer Science,3 / 1,2021
Rashmini Naranpanawa, Ravinga Perera, Thilakshi Fonseka, Uthayasanker Thayasivam,".Analyzing Subword Techniques to Improve English to Sinhala Neural Machine Translation.",International Journal of Asian Language Processing,30,2020
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,30,2020