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Human-centered AI Use in Disaster Management using Crowdsourced Data
4th Workshop on Social Networks and Artificial Intelligence for Disaster Risk Management · Castelo Branco, Portugal Talk
2025
Infrastructure Risk Forecasting using Citizen Sensing & Physical Sensing Data Streams for AI-empowered Disaster Response
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) · Frascati, Italy (Hybrid) Talk
2025
Early Warning System for Transport Risk Detection
Institute for a Sustainable Earth (ISE) Summer Grad Fellows Professional Development Series · George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Talk
2025
Detecting Evolving Violence-Inducing Behaviors in the Social-Cyber Space through Continual Learning
Information Sciences and Technology (IST) PhD Symposium · George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Talk
2025
NSF SCC-IRG: Resilient Sheltering Decision Support for Emergency Evacuations using Explainable AI
National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant
Contributed to developing the technical approach and assisting in proposal writing.
2025
Provost Doctoral Research Scholarship (2024-25)
George Mason University Grant
Competitive scholarship supporting continued progress toward doctoral degree completion.
2024
Violence-Inducing Behaviour Prevention in Social-Cyber Space of Local Communities (SOCYTI)
Research Council of Norway Grant
Contributed to developing the technical approach and proposal writing.
2023
1st Runner-Up — Unbounded by Dell Technologies Hackathon
Award
Secured 1st runner-up for CoviSave, a COVID-19 safety application, at the Dell EMC Unbounded Hackathon.
2021
CINTEC Award
University of Moratuwa Award
Recognized for the highest graded final year project at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
2018
Gold Award for Most Outstanding Digital Communication Project
Rotaract District 3220 Sri Lanka & Maldives Award
Honored at the 28th Rotaract District Assembly for the community initiative TrainLK.
2018