Nisansa De Silva
Senior Lecturer at Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa
Ambalangoda, Southern Province, Sri Lanka
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Top SchoolNisansa De Silva is a senior lecturer and researcher in computer science with 11 years of experience teaching and supervising projects at the University of Moratuwa and graduate training at the University of Oregon. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon and a First Class BSc (Hons) from Moratuwa, combining rigorous academic training with practical course design and weekly hands-on workshops. His research work has spanned concept extraction from public wikis, Sinhala WordNet development, evaluation-panel algorithms for software projects, and applied topics like column-oriented data warehousing and location-based sentiment analysis. Nisansa has blended academic roles with industry-facing research and consultancy (including LIRNEasia and Argonne), bringing applied research into teaching and student projects. He is notable for organizing and delivering recurring technical workshops that cultivate programming and project skills across cohorts, and for supervising multiple CS4200/CS3202 research projects. Based in Ambalangoda, Sri Lanka, he leverages international experience to mentor students toward publishable research and real-world software solutions.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science and Engineering, First Class, Bachelor of Science (Hons), Computer Science and Engineering, First Class at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of OregonHigh School, Mathematics, High School, Mathematics at Dharmasoka College, Ambalangoda
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (1)
stable-diffusion3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NisansaDdS/Dialogue-State-Tracking
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
NisansaDdS/Some-Languages-are-More-Equal-than-Others
Oct 2022 - May 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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