Languages
Python
Java
C#
Frameworks
Dominion Scholar (2019)Computer Science, Irwin B. Levinstein Scholarship, 2020-2021, Old Dominion University ($2500)
Computer Science Outstanding Researcher Award, 2019-2020, Old Dominion University
Dominion Graduate Scholar, 2019, Old Dominion University
Dean’s List - Semester 1, 6, 7, 8, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship (4 academic years) - 20014/2018 University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Laravel
Ionic
ASP.NET core
I am a self-motivated, pleasant individual who believes in commitment and hard work, with effective communication skills, leadership skills and a passion for solving complex problems using Computer Science & Engineering knowledge. My key interests are in the areas of Eye-Tracking, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Distributed Systems.
Work experience
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant at Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA
Jan 2019 - Present
Research Group: NIRDS Lab (Neuro Information Retrieval and Data Science)
Summer Research Intern at Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos NM
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Research Group: Institutional Scientific Content (ISC) Team, a sub division of the Research Library
Implemented GROBID based Scholarly PDF Header and Full Text Extractor
Software Engineering Intern at Ustocktrade (Pvt) Ltd. Sri Lanka
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Automate API documentation generation
Create a plugin for Rapidoid
Research on thread safe B+ tree
Visiting Instructor at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Module - CS2963 Presentation Skills
Course - B.Sc. Engineering Degree
President of ACM Student Chapter of University of Moratuwa,Sri Lanka
Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
Organized and managed ACM student chapter activities
Databases
MySQL
Version Controlling
Git
IDEs
PyCharm
IntelliJ IDEA
NetBeans
WebStorm
PHPStorm
Visual Studio
Operating Systems
Ubuntu
Windows
Android
Education
Old Dominion University, Norfolk VA
PhD - Computer Science (Jan 2019 - Present)
I'm a PhD student in the department of Computer Science. My research interests are Data Science and Machine Learning.
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Bachelor's- Computer Science and Engineering (Nov 2014 - Dec 2018)
Research Publication
Y. Jayawardana, R. Fernando, G. Jayawardena, D. Weerasooriya, I. Perera (2018). "A Full Stack Microservices Framework with Business Modelling". In: 18th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2018
A. M. Michalek, G. Jayawardena, and S. Jayarathna, “Predicting ADHD using eye gaze metrics indexing working memory capacity,” in Computational Models for Biomedical Reasoning and Problem Solving. IGI Global, 2019, pp. 66–88
Gavindya Jayawardena, Anne Michalek, and Sampath Jayarathna, “Eye Tracking Area of Interest in the Context of Working Memory Capacity Tasks,” in IEEE 20th International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI), 2019, pp. 208–215 (To be published)
S. De Silva, S. Dayarathna, G. Ariyarathne, D. Meedeniya, S. Jayarathna, A. M. P. Michalek, G. Jayawardena, “A Rule-Based System for ADHD Identification using Eye Movement Data”, International Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Conference (MERCon2019), IEEE explorer, Sri Lanka, 2019. pp. 538–543
Gavindya Jayawardena, Anne Michalek, and Sampath Jayarathna, “Eye Gaze Metrics and Analysis of AOI for Indexing Working Memory towards Predicting ADHD,” arXiv:1906.07183[cs.HC], Jun. 2019.
