Lecturer · AI/ML Researcher · University of Moratuwa

Gayani Wickramarathna

Lecturer @CSE UoM | Project Supervisor @BIT UoM, @SoC IIT | Computer Science & Engineering Graduate (Sp. in Data Science) | Researcher in AI/ML | Mathematics Enthusiast

First Class Honors graduate in Computer Science & Engineering specializing in Data Science, now teaching, supervising and researching at the intersection of machine learning, natural language processing and applied mathematics.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka B.Sc. Eng. (Hons.) — First Class
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Focus areas

Research & Teaching Stack

Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingComputer VisionData EngineeringPower BI & SQLApplied Mathematics

15

Certifications

6

Roles held

3

Institutions

Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa

Experience

Work Experience

Teaching, supervision and industry practice across academia and business intelligence.

Lecturer

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa

Nov 2025 — PresentFull-time

Moratuwa, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Lecturing undergraduate modules, academic mentoring, and conducting research in AI/ML & Natural Language Processing.

  • Lecturing
  • AI/ML Research
  • Academic Mentoring

Project Supervisor

Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT Campus)

May 2026 — Present · 4 mosPart-time

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Supervising final-year software engineering and AI research projects.

  • Project Supervision
  • Software Engineering

Project Supervisor — BIT (External)

University of Moratuwa

Oct 2025 — Present · 11 mosPart-time

Moratuwa, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Guiding external BIT undergraduate students in software architecture, implementation and research writing.

  • Research Supervision
  • Software Architecture

Junior Consultant

CSE, University of Moratuwa

Jul 2025 — Oct 2025Full-time

Moratuwa, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Academic consultancy, technical coordination, and curriculum support.

  • Curriculum Support
  • Technical Coordination

Visiting Instructor

University of Moratuwa

Jan 2025 — Jun 2025 · 6 mosPart-time

Moratuwa, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Visiting Instructor for Programming Languages, S4 Intake 22 engineering undergraduates.

  • Programming Languages
  • Teaching

Data Engineering Intern

Brown & Company PLC

Dec 2023 — May 2024 · 6 mosFull-time

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka

Part of the CEO's Intern Team at the CEO's Office. Built Business Intelligence solutions using Microsoft Power BI and SQL analytical pipelines.

  • Microsoft Power BI
  • SQL
  • Computer Science
  • +10 skills
Education

Education & Qualifications

Engineering honors, a mathematics minor, and qualifications spanning language and finance.

B.Sc. Engineering (Hons.) in Computer Science and Engineering

University of Moratuwa

Aug 2021 — Jun 2025

First Class

Stream: Data Science and Engineering

Computer VisionComputer ScienceMachine LearningData EngineeringNLP

Minor Degree in Mathematics

University of Moratuwa

Aug 2021 — Jun 2025

Neural Networks & Fuzzy LogicLinear ModelsMultivariate Statistics+3 skills

Diploma in English Language and Literature

Aquinas College of Higher Studies

Aug 2019 — Mar 2021

Merit Pass

Comprehension A+ | Literature A+ | Composition A | Grammar A | Speech A

English LiteratureEnglish GrammarComposition

CIMA — Certificate Level (BA1, BA2, BA3)

CIMA · Accounting and Business/Management

Sep 2019 — Jun 2020

Credential ID: 1-4YWN2NF

Financial AccountingBusiness EconomicsManagement Accounting

Secondary Education — Physical Science

St. Paul's Milagiriya

Jan 2006 — Aug 2019

GCE A/L 2019: Combined Mathematics A | Physics A | Chemistry A

Societies: Science Society | Astronomical Society | Buddhist Society

PhysicsChemistryCombined Mathematics
Credentials

Licenses & Certifications

15 credentials across AI acceleration, cloud data engineering, software practice and finance.

AI / NVIDIA

Building Transformer-Based Natural Language Processing Applications

NVIDIA

  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Issued Feb 2026

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AI / NVIDIA

Fundamentals of Accelerated Data Science

NVIDIA

  • Data Science

Issued Feb 2026

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AI / NVIDIA

Fundamentals of Deep Learning

NVIDIA

  • Deep Learning

Issued Sep 2025

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Cloud / AWS

AWS Academy Graduate — AWS Academy Data Engineering

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Data Engineering
  • AWS

Issued Mar 2025

Cloud / AWS

AWS Academy Graduate — AWS Academy Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Issued Sep 2024

Software & Web

QA Fundamentals

10Pearls University

  • Quality Assurance

Issued Dec 2024

Software & Web

Idealize 2024

AIESEC in Sri Lanka

  • React.js
  • Software Engineering Practices

Issued Nov 2024

Software & Web

Foundations of Project Management

Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa

  • Project Management

Issued Sep 2024

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AI / NVIDIA

Feature Engineering

Kaggle

  • Feature Engineering

Issued Mar 2023

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Software & Web

Web Design for Beginners

Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa

  • JavaScript
  • HTML
  • CSS

Issued Mar 2022

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Software & Web

Python for Beginners

Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa

  • Python

Issued Feb 2022

Finance & Other

Fintech: An Introduction to Financial Technology

University of Sri Jayewardenepura

  • FinTech

Issued Apr 2025

Finance & Other

Finance Essentials

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

  • Capital Markets
  • Business Economics
  • +1 skill

Issued Dec 2024

Finance & Other

Engineering Workshop

ESOFT Metro Campus

  • Engineering

Issued Jan 2020

Finance & Other

National Statistics Olympiad 2015 — Merit Pass

Institute of Applied Statistics Sri Lanka (IASSL)

  • Statistics

Issued Oct 2015

Contact

Let's talk research & teaching

Open to AI/ML research collaborations, project supervision and academic conversations.

Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka