Dinuka Abeywardena
Perception Lead at Wing
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDinuka Abeywardena is a Perception Lead and computer vision expert with 13+ years of experience applying both geometric and learning-based methods to real-world robotics and aerial autonomy. At Wing (Alphabet) he led development of production navigation, large-scale 3D reconstruction, DSM pipelines, and a vision-only localization system that now supports hundreds of thousands of commercial missions and thousands of UAVs. He blends PhD-level robotics research with pragmatic engineering, having moved novel algorithms into high-throughput production systems that process millions of images weekly. Dinuka has driven evaluation and adoption of learned features (SuperPoint, SuperGlue, LightGlue and custom models) to augment geometric pipelines, and he’s particularly focused on where learning complements — rather than replaces — classical vision. Based in Mountain View, he brings cross-functional leadership experience from academia to Google and Wing, with a knack for turning safety and business requirements into scalable perception solutions.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of the science of Engineering, Electronic and Telecommunication, Bachelor of the science of Engineering, Electronic and Telecommunication at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Robotics at University of Technology, Sydney
Github Skills (17)
ros10
mavlink9
autopilot9
px49
drones9
rover9
ros-node9
raspberry-pi9
gateway7
qgroundcontrol7
proxy6
station6
axis4
bug-reporting3
camera3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thedinuka/ReCOPTER
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
ninjablocks/arduino
Feb 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:24 commits in 6 months
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