Tharindu Ranasinghe
Assistant Professor In Security And Protection Science, Computing And Communications
Lancaster, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTharindu Ranasinghe is an Assistant Professor in Security and Protection Science at Lancaster University with 11 years of experience bridging applied NLP and cybersecurity. He earned a PhD in Computer Science in 2021 and has taught and led research in trustworthy, safe NLP models across multiple UK universities. His work focuses on natural language processing for social good, emphasizing model safety, robustness, and ethical deployment. Prior to academia he spent several years in R&D and software engineering roles, bringing practical software delivery experience to research projects. Based in Lancaster, he combines rigorous academic training with hands-on engineering instincts, often translating research prototypes into teachable, real-world systems. An early IEEE student leader and former technical lead, he retains a strong commitment to mentoring and community engagement.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of The Science of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of The Science of Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of WolverhamptonGCE A/L, GCE A/L at Royal College Colombo
English, Sinhala
Stackoverflow
49reputation
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19questions
Github Skills (89)
recurrent10
semantic-textual-similarity10
textual-similarity10
ranking10
nvidia-docker9
textual9
science9
distilbert9
computer-science9
recurrent-neural-networks9
react9
sentiment-classification9
fasttext8
medicine8
torchtext8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TharinduDR/Siamese-Recurrent-Architectures
Dec 2018 - Mar 2019
Usage of Siamese Recurrent Neural network architectures for semantic textual similarity
Contributions:6 releases, 452 commits, 12 PRs in 2 months
architecturesdeep-learningneural-network-architecturessimilaritysiamese
TharinduDR/TransQuest
Mar 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:12 releases, 803 commits, 837 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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