Kanchana Ranasinghe
Research Scientist at Salesforce
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKanchana Ranasinghe is a research scientist based in New York with a decade of experience teaching robots to perceive and reason about the world. Currently at Salesforce after completing a PhD in Computer Science at Stony Brook, she has blended academic rigor with industry impact through internships and research stints at Google, Meta, and Apple. Her work spans machine learning, computer vision, and applied robotics, informed by earlier roles founding an AI startup and building ML systems in industry. Comfortable moving between prototype research and production-facing engineering, she brings both experimental creativity and practical deployment experience. A background in electronics and telecommunication underpins her systems-level view of embodied AI.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Telecommunication, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Telecommunication at University of MoratuwaPhysical Sciences, Physical Sciences at Royal College, ColomboDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Sinhala, English
Stackoverflow
78reputation
4kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (85)
python10
e-mail10
gtk10
foundation-models10
loss-functions10
qt10
statistics10
self-supervised-learning10
chatbot10
data-science10
classification10
data-analysis10
machine-learning10
chatgpt9
multimodal9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kahnchana/svt
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Official repository for "Self-Supervised Video Transformer" (CVPR'22)
Contributions:1 release, 25 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
self-supervised-learningvideo-classificationvision-transformers
kahnchana/kahnchana.github.io
Jul 2020 - Mar 2026
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:99 pushes in 5 years 9 months
templategithub-pages-templatemmistakesmistakesjekyll
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