Malitha Gunawardhana I am a PhD student at University of Auckland, New Zealand and working on developing a novel AI-powered analysis to aid fibrosis-targeted therapy for atrial fibrillation. At the same time I work (contract) at IPPT-PAN, Poland as a researcher supervised by Dr. Norbert Zolek working on a supporting system for diagnosis of breast cancer lesions using ultrasonography and machine learning Before that, I was a research assistant at MBZAUI, UAE as a research assistant supervised by Dr. Muhammad Haris Khan, of MBZUAI and Dr. Daniel Harari of Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. My research was on self supervised learning in videos and network calibration. I completed my Bachelor of Science (Hons) Degree from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2021 specializing in Biomedical Engineering My research interests are in computer vision, medical imaging and self-supervised learning. Email  /  CV  /  Google Scholar  /  DBLP  /  ORCID  /  LinkedIn  /  GitHub

News

• March 2024: Two papers got accepted at CVPR 2024 conference
• December 2023: Started my PhD at University of Auckland.
• March 2023: Our paper accepted at CVPR 2023 conference
• September 2022: I started working as a Research Assistant in MBZUAI
• September 2022: I started working as a Researcher in IPPT-PAN
• July 2021: Graduated from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
• July 2019: Joined Synergen Technology Labs - as a research engineer

Publications

Towards Generalizing to Unseen Domains with Few Labels Chamuditha Jayanga Galappaththige, Sanoojan Baliah, Malitha Gunawardhana, Muhammad Haris Khan CVPR 2024 Paper , Code A new approach for tackling semi-supervised domain generalization (SSDG) by observing the key limitations in best-performing SSL-based baselines

Why Not Use Your Textbook? Knowledge-Enhanced Procedure Planning of Instructional Videos Kumaranage Ravindu Yasas Nagasinghe, Honglu Zhou, Malitha Gunawardhana, Martin Renqiang Min, DanielHarari, Muhammad Haris Khan CVPR 2024 Paper , Code Explore the capability of an agent to construct a logical sequence of action steps, thereby assembling a strategic procedural plan

Multiclass Confidence and Localization Calibration for Object Detection Bimsara Pathiraja, Malitha Gunawardhana, Muhammad Haris Khan CVPR 2023 Paper , Project Page A novel train time calibration method for object detection.

Evaluation of Noise Reduction Methods for Sentence Recognition by Sinhala Speaking Listners Malitha Gunawardhana, Chathuki Navanjana, Dinithi Fernando, Nipuna Upeksha, Anjula de Silva International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems - 2023 Paper compares the performance of wavelet transformation of ten wavelet families with soft and hard thresholding methods and different adaptive filters.

Experience

Institute of Fundamental Technological Research POLISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, Warsaw, Poland Researcher Engineer September 2022 - Present

Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Research Assistant September 2022 - September 2023

Omdena Machine Learning Engineer May 2022 - Present

PromiseQ, Germany Research Machine Learning Engineer Jun 2022 - Nov 2022

Xeptagon Pvt Ltd, Sri Lanka Software Engineer Mar 2021 - May 2022

Synergen Technology Labs (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka Research Engineer Jun 2019 - Dec 2019

Education

University of Auckaland Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) December 2023 - December 2026

University of Moratuwa Bachelor's in Science Engineering (Hons) specialized in Biomedical Engineering. November 2016 - July 2021

• Spring and Summer Schools
  • Deep Learning Medical Imaging School April 2023 - Lyon, France
  • BCI & Neurotechnology Spring School 2023 Online
• MOOCs
  • AI for Medicine Specialization DeepLearning.AI (Coursera)
  • Deep Learning Specialization DeepLearning.AI (Coursera)
  • DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer- Specialization DeepLearning.AI (Coursera)
  • Data Science Career Track 365 Data Science

Research and Community Talks

• IEEE EMBS Student Branch Chapter at the UoM (Jan, 2023): facilitated a workshop at Brainstorm 2023, the foremost biomedical competition in Sri Lanka, on the topic of utilizing AI in healthcare projects
• IEEE Young Professional Sri Lanka (Dec. 2022) : delivered a session for ”AI-Driven Sri Lanka,” an IEEE Young Professional Sri Lanka initiative, focusing on the application of AI in healthcare.

Services and Leadership

• Department of Electronic and Telecommunication, University of Moratuwa (UoM), Sri Lanka: Department Representative (2017-2018), Conducting Robotics Workshops for school children
• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Student Branch Chapter at UoM: An advisor and paper reviewer for the ISC 2021 Moratuwa — IEEE EMBS Conference 2021,Council Member – 2020-21
• Rotaract Club of UoM and Rotaract Club of Alumni of UoM: Vice President - Club Service (2022-2023), Club Service Director (2021-2022), Spirit of Service Award 2017,2018 and 2020

Misc.

• I maintain awesome-video-self-supervised-learning on Github. Drop a message if you would like to contribute.
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