Dulanga Weerakoon
Postdoctoral Associate
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolDulanga Weerakoon is a postdoctoral researcher at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), where he advances multi-modal sensing for human-AI collaboration on pervasive, energy-efficient devices. Under the M3S program and mentorship from Prof. Sanjay Sarma and Prof. Archan Misra, his work focuses on low-latency, low-power perception that fuses vision, language, and gesture inputs to improve instruction comprehension. He earned a PhD in Computer Science from Singapore Management University, where he collaborated with Prof. Archan Misra and Dr. Vigneshwaran Subbaraju. His background spans academia and industry, with prior roles including R&D engineering at Synopsys and research stints at IHPC and LiveLabs, reflecting a hands-on approach to building scalable, resource-conscious systems. He also spent time as a visiting scientist at MIT in 2025, illustrating active cross-institution collaboration and exposure to leading AI and robotics research ecosystems. Based in Singapore, he blends a hardware-oriented foundation in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa with cutting-edge research in AI-enabled sensing.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelorâs Degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Bachelorâs Degree, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Singapore Management UniversityHigh School, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, High School, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at Ananda College, Colombo 10
English, Sinhalese
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Github contributions (5)
dulangaweerakoon/dulangaweerakoon.github.io
Jul 2023 - Mar 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:88 pushes in 1 year 7 months
dulangaweerakoon/myweb3
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
Contributions:12 pushes in 8 months
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