Kalana Ratnayake
Doctoral Student at University of Canberra
District of Belconnen, Australia
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Top SchoolKalana Ratnayake is a robotics-focused PhD student at the University of Canberra with nine years of hands-on experience developing vision-based defect detection systems and end-to-end unmanned ground vehicle stacks. He has built a wheeled robot from the ground up—designing mechanical structure, electronics, low-level firmware and high-level ROS1/ROS2/Micro-ROS control—while leveraging RTAB-Map, OctoMap, PCL and LIDAR/RGB-D sensors for exploration and 3D occupancy mapping. His work spans applied computer vision for material defect identification and social-aware robot navigation research, bridging practical engineering with academic inquiry. As a former research engineer and CTO, he combines systems-level thinking with rapid prototyping and deployment experience across research and industry settings.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Robot Interaction, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Human Robot Interaction at University of CanberraRoyal College Colombo
English, Sinhala
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Github Skills (49)
accelerometer10
arduino-uno9
jetson9
arduino-library9
nvidia9
object-detection9
computer-vision9
nvidia-jetson8
yolov48
gazebosim7
pytorch7
ignition7
windows7
linux7
darknet7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
KalanaRatnayake/Multi-robot-mapping
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 4 months
IntellisenseLab/CS4352-Practicals
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:65 commits, 62 pushes, 4 branches in 3 months
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