Thilanka Munasinghe
Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Albany, New York Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolThilanka Munasinghe is a data scientist and Senior Lecturer at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with 12 years of experience teaching and applying data science, analytics, and informatics to real-world problems. He leads research in AI/ML and Quantum Machine Learning, partnering with agencies such as NASA and Oak Ridge National Lab to extract insights from large-scale Earth observation and engineering datasets. His work spans MLOps, predictive analytics, and automated data pipelines, and he mentors student teams to translate research into operational tools. Trained as an aerospace/mechanical engineer with a PhD in Information Science, he brings a rare mix of physical-systems intuition and data-driven modeling. Beyond academia, he has contributed to open-source IoT projects through Google Summer of Code and developed QML applications during a NASA internship, reflecting a hands-on approach to emerging technologies. Colleagues value his ability to connect multidisciplinary domains—energy, urbanization, health, and social networks—into actionable analytics that address societal challenges.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Science at University at AlbanyMaster of Science, Mechanical Engineering, Master of Science, Mechanical Engineering at West Virginia University
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (8)
tcp9
appinventor8
raspberry-pi6
mqtt5
android2
gmail1
typescript1
javascript1
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
thilankam/AppInventorRaspberryPiCompanion
Jun 2016 - Aug 2022
Companion Code for MIT App Inventor to communicate to a RaspberryPi device using TCP/IP and MQTT.
Contributions:13 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
appinventormqttraspberry-pitcp
thilankam/appinventor-sources
May 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 1 year 3 months
app-inventormit-app-inventorandroidmitinventor
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