Damayanthi Herath graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya in year 2012. After
serving in the industry, she joined back the department as a lecturer in the year 2015. She was a member of the
Optimisation and Pattern Recognition Research Group of Melbourne School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne
as a PhD candidate from 2015-2018. After completing her graduate studies she is back with the department since January
2019.
During her PhD, Damayanthi worked on computational models and methods to profile inherently diverse DNA sequencing
data which encode genetic information of multiple species and organisms. Her work in PhD will assist in understanding the dynamics of microbes, their effects on our surroundings and functionalities of multiple cells under different environments.
Her research interests are in devising methods based on Mathematics and Computer Science to solve problems in
biology and medicine.
University Research grant 2021 from University of Peradeniya.
Merit Award for research from the National Research Council, Sri Lanka, 2019.
AGTA 2018 The best poster (student) prize – Nov 2018 Australiasian Genomic Technologies Association :
Awarded to the best poster presented at the AGTA 2018 conference, Adelaide, Australia
AGTA Travel award 2018 – Oct 2018 Australian Genomic Technologies Association :Supporting the presentation
of research work at AGTA 2018, Adelaide, Australia (https://agtaconference.org/)
Stawell Scholarship – Jul 2017 Melbourne school of Engineering
GHC Student Scholarship – May 2017 Anita Borg Institute (ABI) : The ABI scholarship for Grace Hopper
Celebration of Computing (GHC) gives the opportunity to outstanding female students and faculty to attend GHC
conference, the world’s largest gathering of women technologists
Melbourne International Fee Remission Scholarship – Jun 2015 University of Melbourne
Melbourne International Research Scholarship – Jun 2015 The University of Melbourne
Scholarship winner to attend 4th South Asian Workshop on Research Frontiers in Computing – May 2014 School
of Computing, National University of Singapore
First Runners up in Tech Day 2013 Blogging competition – Oct 2013 Virtusa
Industrial and Financial Systems (IFS) Gold medal for Excellence in Computer Engineering May 2013 IFS : Awarded
by IFS , Sri Lanka annually appreciating the student who excel in academics being the Computer Engineering field
Top in Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya
Manel Ileperuma scholarship – Mar 2010 Alumni Association of University of Peradeniya
Research projects supervised by Dr. Damayanthi Herath:
ABM for Micro Mobility in Sri Lankan Cities
Undergraduate Research Projects
Automated Protein Function Prediction
Undergraduate Research Projects
Using Computer Vision and Agent Based Modelling to Explore the Human Elephant Conflict
Undergraduate Research Projects
Explainable Machine Learning for Real World Resource Constrained Problems
Undergraduate Research Projects
Identifying keywords in legal articles using ML techniques
Undergraduate Research Projects
Revealing miRNA Biomarkers for Alzheimer s Disease using NGS
Undergraduate Research Projects
Please note that here only contain the 'Projects' which were submitted to the
projects.ce.pdn.ac.lk as Final Year Research Projects. The actual list of projects supervised by Dr. Damayanthi Herath may be longer than this.
Research Interests:
Data Engineering
Machine Learning
Metagenomics
Computational Biology
Edutainment
Publications:
Chronic kidney disease prediction using machine learning methods
Imesh Udara Ekanayake; Damayanthi Herath,
2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon) - IEEE, 2020
doi: 10.1109/MERCon50084.2020.9185249
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