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Basics

Name Ishara Nawarathna
Label Ph.D. Candidate at USYD
Email ikos0266@uni.sydney.edu.au
Phone +61 402 314 625
Url www.isharanawarathna.com

Education

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015.01 - 2017.01

    Matale, Sri Lanka

    G.C.E. Advanced Level
    Science College
    Physical Science
    • Combined Mathematics - A
    • Chemistry - A
    • Physics -B

Work

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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

  • 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.

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.