Charith Mendis
Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCharith Mendis is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UIUC with 12 years of research and engineering experience bridging academia and industry. He earned his SM and PhD from MIT and has held roles at Google Brain, Microsoft Research, and as an Amazon Scholar working with Annapurna Labs, bringing practical systems and ML research into production contexts. His work spans speech and parallel systems (including ICASSP-related research) and deep learning research collaborations, reflecting a track record of translating advanced research into scalable implementations. Based in Champaign, he recruits PhD students interested in rigorous, systems-oriented AI research and uniquely combines a strong engineering background from Sri Lanka with elite US academic training.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Eng (Hons), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, B.Sc. Eng (Hons), Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at University of MoratuwaPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyManagement Accounting, Management Accounting at The Chartered Institute of Management AccountantsPhysical Science stream, Physical Science stream at Royal College Colombo
Github Skills (19)
helium10
lifting10
ranking9
react8
computer-science8
science8
x868
dsl8
binaries7
high-performance7
cpp7
throughput6
machine-learning5
deep-learning4
halide4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CharithYMendis/Helium
Apr 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:154 commits, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
liftingcppheliumhalidedsl
CharithYMendis/CharithYMendis.github.io
Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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