Prabod Rathnayaka
AI Research Scientist at Maincode
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolPrabod Rathnayaka is an AI research scientist with over a decade of hands-on experience and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from La Trobe University, currently focused on advancing generative voice AI and state-of-the-art text-to-speech systems. He combines deep research rigor with product-focused engineering, having shipped production-scale audio synthesis models at Replica Studios and led award-winning applied AI projects like the La Trobe Energy Analytics Platform and the Bunji mental health chatbot. His background spans real-time, large-scale data engineering—from patent-pending taxi demand forecasting in Singapore to ETL pipelines processing terabytes per day—enabling robust model deployment on cloud infrastructure. Comfortable bridging academia and industry, he has taught postgraduate analytics courses while leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver measurable impact and cost savings. Based in Melbourne, he brings a pragmatic research mindset that prioritizes reproducible, production-ready solutions in speech and NLP.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Engineering Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Engineering Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at La Trobe University
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
language-detection10
transformers10
entity-extraction10
web-application10
python10
pyspark10
gesture10
websocket10
chat10
deep-learning10
collaboration10
twint10
spark-ml10
machine-translation10
javascript10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
prabod/Scheduling-Algorithm-Demonstration
Apr 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 9 months
prabod/aima-Javascript
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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