Chandeepa Dissanayake
Graduate Research Assistant
Ames, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolChandeepa Dissanayake is a PhD student and Graduate Research Assistant at Iowa State University specializing in quantum algorithms and simulations, with eight years of experience spanning research and industry. He blends academic rigor—rooted in theory of computation and physics-inspired views of computation—with practical machine learning and data science work from roles at Surge Global and Google Summer of Code projects. A UoK alumnus and GSoC alumnus, he has hands-on experience building voice and assistant systems for automotive platforms and contributing to citizen science projects like Planet Hunters. Based in Ames, Iowa, he pursues interdisciplinary interests in astronomy and cosmology alongside quantum sciences, bringing curiosity-driven research toward real-world quantum software challenges.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Iowa State UniversityCollegiate, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Collegiate, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at St. Sylvester's College, KandyBachelor of Science (Honours) - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Honours) - BS, Computer Science at University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka
Github Skills (84)
youtube9
pythonic9
dependency-free9
tqdm9
windows9
ios9
desktop9
cross-platform9
command-line-utility9
android9
flutter9
macos9
dart8
client-library8
playback8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GENIVI/VCIVING-SpeechRecognition
May 2018 - Sep 2019
GENIVI GSoC 2018 and 2019
Contributions:130 commits, 94 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 4 months
deep-learninggsoccomputer-visiongsoc-2018genivi
chandeepadissanayake/pyimage
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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