Biography
Yasas Senarath is a research assistant at the George Mason University, Fairfax. His research interests lie in the area of Social Computing and Natural Language Understanding. In his current research, he is aiming to provide solutions to problems in natural and societal crises by analyzing social media content.
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Interests
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Social Computing
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Disaster Informatics
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Data Mining
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Natural Language Understanding
Education
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Ph.D. in Information Technology, 2024 (Expected)
George Mason University
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M.Sc. in Computer Science (Data Science), 2019
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
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B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2018
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Timeline
2019 - Master of Science
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Successfully completed Research based Masters in Computer Science, Concentration in Data Science.
2018 - Teaching Assistant
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Started working as a Teaching Assistant at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
Subjects: Data Science, Advanced Algorithms, Data Structures
2018 - Bachelor Degree
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Successfully completed bachelor degree programme at Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of Moratuwa.
CGPA: 3.95
2016 - Internship
CodeGen International (Pvt) Ltd
Successfully completed internship at CodeGen. Performed research on Sentiment Analysis of Points of Interest Reviews on Yelp and Tripadvisor platforms.
2014 - Started Engineering Degree Programme
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Started my Engineering Degree Programme at Engineering Faculty of University of Moratuwa.
2012 - GCE A/L
Bandaranayake College, Gampaha, Sri Lanka
Passed with Merit - Physical Sciences Stream
Combined Maths/Physics/Chemistry: A/A/A
Island Rank: 107
2009 - GCE O/L
Bandaranayake College, Gampaha, Sri Lanka
Passed with 8 A's and B grade.