Yasas Senarath

Researcher · AI for Social Good · PhD Candidate

George Mason University

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

  • Social Computing
  • Disaster Informatics
  • Data Mining
  • Natural Language Understanding

Education

  • Ph.D. in Information Technology, 2025 (Expected)
    George Mason University
  • M.Sc. in Computer Science (Data Science), 2019
    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
  • B.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering, 2018
    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

Timeline

  1. 2019

    Master of Science

    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

    Successfully completed Research based Masters in Computer Science, Concentration in Data Science.

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. 2014

    Started Engineering Degree Programme

    University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

    Started my Engineering Degree Programme at Engineering Faculty of University of Moratuwa.

  6. 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

  7. 2009

    GCE O/L

    Bandaranayake College, Gampaha, Sri Lanka

    Passed with 8 A's and B grade.