Danushka Bollegala
Amazon Scholar at University of Liverpool
Greater Liverpool Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDanushka Bollegala is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool and an Amazon Scholar working on cutting-edge NLP and information retrieval for Amazon Search. With 13 years of research and industry experience spanning roles in Japan and the UK, he blends deep academic expertise in AI, machine learning and data mining with hands-on applied work at scale. He holds a PhD from The University of Tokyo and has a track record of bridging theory and practice—publishing in computational linguistics while collaborating on production-focused search systems. He actively recruits and mentors applied scientists, signaling a strong role in team building as well as technical leadership. An often-overlooked strength is his multilingual background and long-standing ties to Japanese research institutions, which inform his cross-cultural collaboration style.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Japanese Language Proficiency Japanese Language and Literature, Diploma in Japanese Language Proficiency Japanese Language and Literature at Osaka University of Foreign StudiesUniversity of TokyoAll Island 3rd rank in GCE A/L in Sri Lanka (1998), All Island 3rd rank in GCE A/L in Sri Lanka (1998) at Nalanda College
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
prediction9
nlp8
nlp-machine-learning8
svd8
languagetool8
grammar8
checker8
autoencoder8
language-processing8
benchmark8
reduction8
nearest-neighbors8
approximate8
computation7
dimensionality-reduction7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Bollegala/bollegala.github.io
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
Contributions:287 commits, 369 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
LivNLP/livnlp.github.io
Oct 2018 - Feb 2023
University of Liverpool, Natural Language Processing Group
Contributions:58 commits, 118 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
nlplanguage-processingmachine-learningnlp-machine-learningliverpool
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