Hi, I'm Avishka
I am a Deep Learning Researcher at Pekoe (Pte) Ltd, where my primary focus is on conducting cutting-edge research to explore and develop novel tools specifically tailored for the global tea industry.
My personal research agenda involves exploring novel "flavours" of JEPA. I am also dedicated to investigating how Linear Algebraic techniques can be applied to enforce homogeneity within representation spaces in a self-supervised learning context. Additionally, multi-modal learning constitutes a significant area of my research interest.
I'm a Karate Black Belt Holder. I'm experienced in human resource management. While mostly being oriented towards research, I'm also a teacher, graphic designer and a full stack web developer.
Experience
TeaAI
2023 Jan - PRESENT
University of Moratuwa
2023 Jan - 2024 December
CircuitBreakers
2021 Jan - 2023 Jan
Electronic Club
2020 Dec - 2022 Dec
OAEG
2019 Jan - 2024 Mar
Rotaract Mora
2020 Apr - 2022 Jul
TeaAI | Senior Research Engineer; 2025 Jun - PRESENT Research Engineer; 2024 Jun - 2025 Jun Research Intern; 2023 Jan - 2024 Jun |
University of Moratuwa | Visiting Instructor; In21-S5-EN3160 - Image Processing and Machine Vision; 2024 June - 2024 December Developer at World Bank Funded AHEAD Intelligent Camera Project; 2023 Jan - 2023 May |
CircuitBreakers | Associate in Designs; 2022 |
Electronics Club, University of Moratuwa | Video Coordinator; 2022/23 Web developer; 2021/22 |
Old Anadians' Engineering Guild | Secretary; 2023 IT Director; 2022 School Affairs Assistant Director; 2021 Committee Member; 2020 |
Rotaract Club, University of Moratuwa | International Services Director; 2021/22 Co-Founder and Chairperson, Model United Nations of University of Moratuwa (RMMUN) |
Publications
arXiv | CrossJEPA: Cross-Modal Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture for Efficient 3D Representation Learning from 2D Images [arxiv] |
Education
University of Moratuwa
2019 Dec - 2024 Dec
Ananda College
2013 Jan - 2018 Aug
NSKF
2007 Jun - 2022 Dec
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka | BSc (Honours) Engineering at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering Embedded Machine Learning for Edge Computing; Short course |
Ananda College, Colombo 10 | G.C.E. Advanced Level; Physical Science Stream; 3As; Island Rank 109; District Rank 47; Z-Score 2.314 G.C.E. Ordinary Level; 8As 1B |
Cousera | Deep Learning Specialization (5 courses); Andrew Ng, DeepLearningAI Mathematics for Machine Learning Specialization (3 courses); David Dye, Imperial College London An Intuitive Introduction to Probability; Karl Schmedders, University of Zurich |
Nihon Shotokan Karate Do Federation | Karate Black Belt Diploma |
Awards and Recognitions
National AI Expo 2025 | Senior AI Engineer of the team winning the "Emerging AI Innovator in Sri Lanka" award [LinkedID][Blog] |
University of Moratuwa Colors - Karate | 2022 |
Sri Lanka Schools' Karate Team | Vice Captain (2019) |
Ananda College Karate Team | Captain (2019) |
National Colors - Karate | 2019 2018 |
Anada Padma - Karate | 2018 |
Ananda College Colors - Karate | 2019 2018 |
Sri Lanka School Games - Karate | 2019 - 1st Place 2018 - 1st Place 2017 - 2nd Place 2016 - 2nd Place |
Rotaract District Assembly 2022, District 3220 | Director for the Rotaract initiative RMMUN to winning the Gold Award for the Most Innovative International Service Project within two years of initiation Director for the Rotaract initiative Boon Digity to winning the Silver Award for the Most Outstanding International Service Project within the initiated year |
Copyrights
U.S. Copyright Office
United States Copyright Office | TXu 2-370-379: Copyright for Vehicle Number Plate Detection System; May 19, 2023 |
Tools
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Keras
OpenCV
ITK
Docker
AWS
AWS Sagemaker
AWS Lambda
AWS AppSync
AWS S3
AWS EC2
AWS ECR
ReactJS
NextJS
Firebase
MySQL
JSP & Servlet
Altium Designer
SolidWorks
Multisim
Logisim
Proteus
Atmel Studio
Arduino
Matlab
Webots
Mathematica
Blender
Languages
C++
Python
Java
JavaScript
PHP
HTML
CSS
Apache VTL