Thimal Kempitiya
Data Scientist
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolThimal Kempitiya is a Data Scientist and PhD in Artificial Intelligence with 12 years of engineering and research experience building production-grade ML solutions across retail, energy, web3, and immersive media. Currently at Coles, he designs ML pipelines that improve forecasting accuracy and reduce bias, while also lecturing postgraduate Machine Learning and NLP courses at La Trobe University. His background blends deep research—developing brain-inspired latent learning algorithms for time-series and energy data—with hands-on product delivery from AI-driven 3D reconstruction and vehicle damage detection to customer and social media analytics. He has led multidisciplinary teams, mentored AI projects at the Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition, and advised enterprise wallet service design at Kaiju Web3 Lab, demonstrating an unusual mix of academic rigour and pragmatic systems engineering. Known for applying novel algorithms to real-world forecasting and detection problems, he excels at turning complex research into scalable, production-ready solutions.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, computer science & Engineering, First Class, Bachelor’s Degree, computer science & Engineering, First Class at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at La Trobe UniversityMaliyadeva College
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (14)
hierarchical-clustering9
self-organizing-map8
clustering-algorithm7
reduction7
dimensionality-reduction6
clustering6
nearest-neighbors6
python5
cognitive-services1
azure1
mlops-workflow1
azure-machine-learning1
data-pipelines1
data-platform1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CDAC-lab/pygsom
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
pygsom is an open source python-based implementation of GSOM algorithm. GSOM is unsupervised dimensionality reduction and clustering algorithm
Contributions:3 releases, 19 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 3 months
pythondimensionalitydimensionality-reductionunsupervisedclustering
thimalk/gaknn
Aug 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:39 commits in 2 months
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