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Lecturer
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
Profile
Academic Background
Educator and researcher in computing, with experience across Programming Methodology, Algorithms, Machine Learning and Computer vision.
Biography
About Me
I am a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore. My academic work combines university teaching, curriculum development, student mentorship and research in machine learning and computer vision.
I completed my PhD at the NUS School of Computing, where my doctoral research investigated learning principles inspired by the human brain, including continual learning, recency, similarity-based learning and predictive coding. Earlier, I earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
My teaching experience covers Discrete Structures, Data Structures and Algorithms, Machine learning, Programming Methodology and Software Engineering. I am especially interested in making difficult abstractions concrete through carefully sequenced examples, practical exercises and transparent assessment design.
Career
Professional Experience
Full-time academic and professional appointments.
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Teaching Assistant
Department of Computer Science
National University of Singapore
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Junior Consultant
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Expertise
Areas of academic practice
Education
Programming and Software Design
Object-oriented programming, functional programming, type systems, software engineering and maintainable system design.
Algorithms
Analysis and Implementation
Data structures, algorithmic reasoning, complexity analysis, parallel algorithms and hardware-aware performance trade-offs.
Intelligence
Machine Learning and Vision
Continual learning, multi-task learning, predictive representations, anomaly detection and computer vision.