Tharindu Kumarage
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Tempe, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolTharindu Kumarage is an Applied Scientist II and PhD researcher with a decade of experience applying deep learning and NLP to social-good problems like disinformation, hate speech, and stress detection. His work blends rigorous research and real-world impact—leading DARPA SemaFor–ranked models and a journalism-aware detector (J-Guard) that achieved 0.98 F1 on benchmark evaluations. He has a strong engineering toolset (PyTorch, Hugging Face, Docker, Python/C++) and a track record of deploying research in collaboration with journalism experts, industry partners, and platform defenders. Tharindu’s research emphasizes robust, causally informed, cross-platform solutions (e.g., PEACE) that resist distribution shift and adversarial LLM threats. Now at Amazon after a series of applied research internships, he focuses on AI forensics and responsible AI at scale. Beyond papers and models, he brings experience translating research into production features for industry partners and civic stakeholders.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Arizona State UniversityRoyal College Colombo
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Github contributions (5)
TSKumarage/Generated-Text-Detector
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:38 pushes in 1 year 10 months
TSKumarage/Data-Generation-for-Neural-Fake-News-Detection
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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