Experience
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
(Sep 2024 - Current)
Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Information |
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As a Bullard Postdoctoral Research Fellow, I am collaborating with Dr. Jacek Gwizdka at the Information eXperience (IX) Lab. My research leverages neuro-physiological evidence to deepen our understanding of human-information interaction. As part of my fellowship, I plan to explore the use of real-time cognitive load detection algorithms in applied contexts. |
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Old Dominion University, USA
(Jan 2019 - Aug 2024)
Graduate Assistant, Department of Computer Science |
I currently collaborate with Learning, Innovation, & Technology Lab at Harvard University, to explore the relationship between joint visual attention and joint mental effort in collaborative learning environments by conducting a data analysis of eye tracking datasets. I also collaborated with Clemson University to detect cognitive load in real-time using pupillary activity. I also built models to estimate the rate of change of the academic web using archived copies of web pages. I was a Teaching Assistant for the following courses.
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Los Alamos National Laboratory
(Jun 2021 - Aug 2021, Jun 2022 - Aug 2022)
Summer Graduate Research Intern |
I built a software to extract metadata (title, abstract, keywords, authors, affiliations) and full text from scholarly PDF documents in real-time. I also developed a website to review the extracted metadata. |
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University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
(Jan 2018 - Jun 2018)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science and Engineering |
I prepared course materials, conducted lectures, and graded student assignments for the course CS2963: Presentation Skills |
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UStocktrade (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
(Jun 2017 - Dec 2017)
Software Engineering Intern |
I developed a program to reduce documentation efforts by automating the API documentation generation based on code changes. |