CV
General Information
| Full Name | Rashindrie Perera |
| rashindrieperera@gmail.com |
Most Recent Experience
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2024 - Present Senior Applied Scientist
Oracle, Australia -
2023 - 2024 Machine Learning Scientist
Cancer Research Divison, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia
Education
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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.
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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).