CV

General Information

Full Name Rashindrie Perera
Email rashindrieperera@gmail.com

Most Recent Experience

  • 2024 - Present
    Senior Applied Scientist
    Oracle, Australia
  • 2023 - 2024
    Machine Learning Scientist
    Cancer Research Divison, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia

Education

  • 2024
    PhD
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    • Supervised by Prof. Saman Halgamuge, Prof. Sherene Loi, Dr. Peter Savas, and Dr. Jason Li.
    • Deep Neural Networks for Limited Data Scenarios
      • Enhanced foundational research in few-shot learning by developing parameter-efficient fine-tuning approaches, achieving an average accuracy improvement up to 7.7% over the state-of-the-art methods across 13 datasets.
      • Pioneered novel weakly-supervised training models for giga-pixel images, achieving upto 8% classification improvement on held-out test data.
      • Developed a transformer based model for analysing kinematic time-series data, achieving up to 3% improvement over the state-of-the-art methods.
  • 2014 - 2018
    B.SC. (Hons) in Computer Science & Engineering
    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
    • GPA of 4.02/4.2 (ranked in the top 3% of the batch).