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PhD in Visual Computing & Interactive Media

MS in Computer Science

BS in Computer Science

Research Assistant — Virtual Production Institute

• VVAI Lab: Developing a Mixed Reality Digital Twin Framework for Training, Accessibility, and Pipeline Optimization in Virtual Production.
• Assisted Summer Industry Course (SIC) 2025 by troubleshooting technical problems related to the Unreal Engine pipeline. Developed TechViz tools. Conducted mini workshops on Virtual Scouting, Virtual Camera, Motion and Facial Capture.
• Assisted in building and configuring the initial virtual production stages for VPI, including ICVFX workflows with a large LED volume, cinema cameras, motion tracking systems, and real-time rendering software.

VR Agent Conversation Animation Synthesis

• Captured multimodal conversation data including full-body VICON motion capture, eye tracking, speech audio, and video.
• Developed an Unreal Engine and LLM based VR conversation agent system.
• Designed and trained a body and eye motion synthesis Generative AI (CVAE — Conditional Variational Auto Encoder) model.

Final Year Undergraduate Research — Individual Project

• Developed an experimental setup to study the behavior of twining plants, creating a dataset of growth time-lapses and plant measurements.
• Proposed a novel collision-based twining plant simulation model, enhancing the biomechanical aspects of existing models.
• Conducted real-time simulations, evaluating both behavioral realism and computational efficiency.

"The Experiment", "Plunder" — Summer Industry Course Virtual Production Projects

"Sixth Side" — Test Shoot for a Virtual Production Shortfilm in Pre-Production

"The Elves and the Shoemaker" — Virtual Production Short

Unreal Engine Technician / TA — Summer Industry Course (SIC) 2025 in Virtual Production

Instructional Assistant (IA) — Interactive Computer Graphics (COSC 4370/6372)

Instructional Assistant (IA) — Interactive Computer Graphics (COSC 4370)

Instructional Assistant (IA) — Software Design (COSC 4353/6353)

Instructional Assistant (IA) — Computer Science and Programming (COSC 1336)

Visiting Lecturer — Game Designing (MI 5015)

Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer

SAF-TAC Project — Epic Mega Grant Recipient

• Contributed to the development of map and content modding infrastructure.
• Contributed to iterative development of a hybrid (animation and IK driven) 3-point tracked full-body VR avatar system.
• Developed 3D interaction systems and 3D user interfaces for VR users.
• Developed 3D/2D scenario authoring/replay tools and user interfaces.
• Developed camera, navigation, and switching systems for vehicles and characters.
• Developed time-of-day and weather control features.
• Created dynamic paths (aircraft and projectile) and shape-drawing plugins.
• Initiated profiling, optimization processes, and multiplayer replication best practices to improve performance and concurrent player count.
• Integrated an in-house haptic suit and ProTubeVR haptic weapon.
• Carried out logic/content optimizations and configurations to support multiple VR devices (Oculus Rift/Rift S, Oculus Quest, Samsung Odyssey, HTC Vive, Varjo XR).

SAF-Fires Project

• Integrated the NVIDIA PhysX physics engine.
• Developed a rotary-wing flight dynamic model capable of handling manual controls from standard joysticks.

Research & Development Intern

• Participated in training sessions and exercises on C, C++, register-transfer level (RTL) languages (Verilog, VHDL), electronic design automation (EDA) technologies, and ASIC/SoC pipelines.
• Implemented new LINT rules and RTL test cases for an electronic design and verification tool.
• Analysed and fixed memory issues and contributed to developing regression test infrastructure.
• Contributed to R&D work to create a "Machine learning framework to predict which LINT rules to run on an electronic design".

• Selected for the "Spiralation" Startup Support Program — Bamboo Game — ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA)

• 1st Runner-up — Measure Wire — Microsoft Imagine Cup Sri Lanka, Innovation Category
• Finalist — Game of Thoughts — Microsoft Imagine Cup Sri Lanka, Games Category

• 2nd Runner-up — LOL Game — Microsoft Imagine Cup Sri Lanka, Games Category

• Best Direction, Best Script — Theater Play "Right is Wrong" — Royal College Colombo Inter House Sinhala Drama Competition

"FrogSized" 3D animation short — Responsible for all aspects

3D animation advertisement for a digital banking solution

Interactive VR Volume Rendering to explore medical data

VR game "All Elephants Go to Heaven", developed for Epic Mega Jam 2020

Desktop multiplayer game "Under The Ice", developed for Unreal Spring Jam 2020

Hospital channelling system for Southern Lanka Hospitals

Smart institute management solution "SIMS"

Desktop multiplayer game "Bamboo Game", developed with the Spiralation Startup program

Hospital office management system for Panadura Base Hospital

IOT solution "Measure Wire" — a mobile app and device for taking everyday measurements

Two-player game based on cellular automata, "Game of Thoughts"

"LOL Game" — a mobile game where players make characters laugh by tapping

Visiting session on Unreal Engine 4 for UCSC 3rd year game development module

Unreal Engine 4 sessions for game development — Vocational Training Institute, Colombo 06, Sri Lanka

Unreal Engine 4 sessions for game development — Informatics Institute of Technology, Colombo 05, Sri Lanka

Mentor at "Game Rush" game hackathon, organized by UCSC IEEE student branch

Session on UE4 game development at "Game Rush", organized by UCSC IEEE student branch

Senior Prefect

Chairman

Assistant Chairman