Vihanga Jayawickrama

Hello there! I am a lecturer on contract at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from the same department and I’m starting my PhD in Computer Science at Michigan State University in Fall 2024.
My research interests include natural language processing, data science, deep learning, and sentiment analysis.
In my free time, I indulge in quite a lot of hobbies; including but not limited to writing poetry, reading, hiking, baking, travelling, drawing, and photography.
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Nov 9, 2023 | MERCon 2023 Conference: Participated as a paper reviewer |
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Jan 2, 2023 | Commenced work as a Lecturer (on Contract) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa |
Nov 7, 2022 | The International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer): Published the paper titled “Facebook for Sentiment Analysis: Baseline Models to Predict Facebook Reactions of Sinhala Posts” |
Oct 24, 2022 | 36th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation: Published the paper titled “Sinhala Sentence Embedding: A Two-Tiered Structure for Low-Resource Languages” |
May 2, 2022 | Commenced work as a Junior Researcher at LIRNEasia |