Hansi Hettiarachchi
Lecturer In Security And Protection Science, Computing And Communications
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHansi Hettiarachchi is a lecturer in Security and Protection Science at Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications, bringing 11 years of experience across academia and industry. He focuses on machine learning for natural language processing with an emphasis on societal and human security, combining rigorous PhD research with practical data science teaching. Previously he progressed from software engineering roles to senior engineering and then to academic positions at Birmingham City University, giving him a rare blend of production-grade development and research skills. Hansi holds a first-class Computer Science degree and a PhD in Computing, and his background suggests strong applied ML skills grounded in real-world systems engineering. Colleagues describe him as someone who translates complex security questions into deployable NLP solutions that address social safety challenges.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Computer Literacy, Certificate, Computer Literacy at Technical Engineering College (Sri Lanka)Diploma, Information Technology with E-commerce, Diploma, Information Technology with E-commerce at ESOFT Computer StudiesAnula VidyalayaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computing at Birmingham City UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, First Class, Overall GPA 3.79, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, First Class, Overall GPA 3.79 at University of Moratuwa
Sinhalese, English
Github Skills (17)
hierarchical-clustering10
dendrogram10
social-media10
python7
twitter-sentiment-analysis7
twitter6
datasets3
machine-learning2
emoji2
multilingual2
transformers2
nlp2
text-mining2
natural-language-processing2
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
HHansi/Informative-Tweet-Identification
Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
InfoMiner in WNUT-2020 Task 2: Identification of informative COVID-19 English Tweets
Contributions:60 commits, 2 pushes in 8 months
informativeenglishtwitteridentificationtweets
HHansi/Embed2Detect
Mar 2020 - Apr 2022
Python implementation of Embed2Detect for event detection in social media
Contributions:82 commits, 6 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 1 month
python-implementationevent-detectionpythonsocial-mediadendrogram
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