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Basics
Name | Ishara Nawarathna |
Label | Ph.D. Candidate at USYD |
ikos0266@uni.sydney.edu.au | |
Phone | +61 402 314 625 |
Url | www.isharanawarathna.com |
Education
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2025.03 - 2028.08 Sydney, Australia
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sydney
Engineering(Computer Engineering)
- Computer Architecture
- Embedded Systems
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2018.11 - 2023.12 Kandy, Sri Lanka
B.Sc. in Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya
Engineering(Computer Engineering)
- Studied Courses relevant to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Graduated with first-class honours with a GPA of 3.80/4.00
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2015.01 - 2017.01 Matale, Sri Lanka
G.C.E. Advanced Level
Science College
Physical Science
- Combined Mathematics - A
- Chemistry - A
- Physics -B
Work
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2025.08 - 2026.01 Casual Academic
University of Sydney
Currently working as a Teaching Assistant for the Computer Systems and Communication Networks courses, supporting student learning and engagement.
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2023.12 - 2025.03 Software Engineer
Sysco Labs Sri Lanka
worked in Sysco Labs Pipigngna engineering team which is responsible for developing new features, improvements,and performing bug fixes, and patch releases for Sysco Shop related to orders.
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2023.10 - 2023.12 Casual Instructor
Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya
Conducted lab sessions for CO322 Data Structures and Algorithms, CO323 Computer Communication Networks II, CO324 Network and Web Application Design courses.
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2022.12 - 2023.05 Research and Development Software Engineering Intern
Sysnopsys Lanka
Worked on a tool which is designed to run Verilog-coded circuits on GPUs,enabling accelerated computing for circuit simulations. Used CUDA for this project.
Volunteer
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2022.04 - 2022.05 Sri Lanka
Teaching in a Webinar Series
Association of Computer Engineering Students - ACES
Nenathambara Program which is a webinar series to teach Arduino and Python to School Students in rural areas. This program was organized by Association of Computer Engineering Students - ACES
Projects
- 2021.01 - 2023.01
Remote Gate-keeping System
This is a system to communicate remotely with an outsider and receive deliveries, without making physical interactions. The system consists with an IoT component, Mobile application and a Web application. Delivery person can give the delivery to us using the IoT device and we can communicate him and also control the IoT device through the Mobile App.
- Technologies: Raspberry Pi, React JS, React Native, Firebase, Python
- 2022.01 - 2022.06
Smart Building: Occupancy and Access Control
This is an interconnected system implemented using actual hardware to emulate a Smart Building. This project was contributed by several groups and for our section, we implemented features to Keep track of occupancy of rooms and control Authorization and Authentication of the people who use them.
- Technologies: Node-RED, MQTT, NodeMCU, JS
- 2019.01 - 2019.06
Hospital Management System
This is a complete Hospital Management System, Full stackimplementation of the system. Accessing and Querying Patients, Doctors, Appliances, and Tests through a web portal.
- Technologies: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
- 2020.01 - 2020.06
Road Accident Analysis
This is an online system to provide more accurate information on road accidents. Followed Agile methodology throughout the project.
- Technologies: FastAPI, MongoDB, Azure DevOps, React JS, TensorFlow
- 2021.02 - 2021.05
Single Cycle RISC 8-bit Computer
8-bit minicomputer using simple logic ICs, Flip-Flops, and some memory modules. Includes an ALU, a Register File and Control Logic. Implemented data memory, instruction memory , data cache and instruction cache.
- Technologies: Verilog, C Programming
Awards
- 2022.01.01
14th Place, ACES Coders v9.0
Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Inter-university island-wide competitive programming competition
- 2022.01.01
3rd Place, ACES Precoders v9.0
Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Participated in the competitive programming competition and was able to get selected at the 3rd place of the competition.
- 2022.01.01
2nd Place, ACES Hackfest 2022
Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Our team has implemented a system which is able detect potential covid spreaded areas with a help of a mobile application.
Certificates
Advanced React | ||
Meta | 2023-03-12 |
Introduction to Parallel Programming with CUDA | ||
Johns Hopkins University | 2022-12-22 |
Introduction to Concurrent Programming with GPUs | ||
Johns Hopkins University | 2022-12-01 |
Meta Front-End Developer Specialization, Coursera | ||
Meta | 2022-12-01 |
React - The Complete Guide (incl Hooks, React Router, Redux) | ||
Udemy | 2022-01-01 |
Java Programming: Solving Problems with Software | ||
Duke University | 2020-05-28 |
Languages
Sinhala | |
Native speaker |
English | |
Fluent(IELTS Overall band: 7) |
Interests
Computer Architecture |
Embedded Systems |
Data Structures and Algorithms |
Hardware Accelerators for AI and ML |
Cloud Engineering and DBMS |
References
Prof. Sri Parameswaran | |
Head of the Department,School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia. |
Dr. Darshana Jayasinghe | |
Lecturer, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia. |