Charith Munasinghe
Research Associate
Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolCharith Munasinghe is a research-driven mechatronics and software engineer with 11 years of experience building intelligent robotic systems, currently leading initiatives in Intelligent Robotics at ZHAW School of Engineering. He bridges aerial and ground robotics, Edge AI, multi-sensor perception (SLAM, VIO, multi-LIDAR), and industrial digitalization projects from funding and management through to deployment and validation. His background spans startups and enterprise software—ranging from drone and GNSS/INS integration for city-scale digital twins to backend engineering with graph databases—giving him a rare combination of field robotics and scalable software expertise. He supervises student research and secures Swiss and EU project funding, evidencing both technical leadership and program-building skills. Notably, he pairs hands-on embedded and edge-AI development with experience turning academic research into industrial inspection and smart-factory solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - M.Sc., Mechatronics and Automation, Master of Science - M.Sc., Mechatronics and Automation at ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Science Engineering, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Computer Science Engineering at University of Moratuwa
English, Sinhala, German
Github Skills (37)
lidar9
3d-object-detection8
robotics7
datasets7
nvidia7
object-detection6
computer-vision6
jetson-xavier6
segmentation6
semantic-segmentation6
edgetpu6
image-recognition6
jetson6
caffe6
visualization6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
charithmu/perception_pipeline
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 26 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
charithmu/Distributed-File-Sharing-System-Using-Chord
Nov 2017 - Mar 2023
A Distributed File Sharing System which used Chord-DHT as the overlay network
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
dhtoverlay-networkfile-sharingsharingchord-dht
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