Charith Perera
Reader at UK Young Academy
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCharith Perera is a Reader in IoT at Cardiff University with 11 years of academic and applied research experience building resilient, semantics-driven sensing systems for smart cities, buildings, and critical infrastructure. He leads the Internet of Things Garage research group and bridges standards, tooling, and real-world deployments—working as an invited W3C Web of Things expert to improve Thing Description quality for LLM-enabled IoT agents. His work spans industry secondments and fellowships (GCHQ, BRE, Digital Catapult, CSIRO) and practical systems such as a low-cost air-gapped sensor layer for ICS anomaly detection and semantic data-marketplace prototypes. He combines deep technical skills from a PhD in Computer Science with strategic impact roles—school governor, IEEE Smart Cities committee member, and an elected UK Young Academy member—helping shape policy, diversity, and research translation. Often tackling heterogenous data fusion and agentic interfaces, he recently developed Talking Aquifer interfaces that connect geophysical sensing, IoT, and LLMs for interactive exploration. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic standards advocate who turns complex IoT research into hands-on tools, demos, and educational resources.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityStudy Abroad (Funded by IARU and VC Office), Study Abroad (Funded by IARU and VC Office) at University of CambridgeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of WalesBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at University of Staffordshire
Sinhalese, English
Github Skills (6)
render8
markup6
machine-learning5
markdown5
web-of-things3
javascript2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ngcharithperera/mobile-performance-monitor
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
ngcharithperera/mobile-sensor-data-engine-mosden
Sep 2014 - Mar 2017
Contributions:21 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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