Education History

PhD in Computer Science

• University : RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
• Status : Reading (2023 - expected to graduate in 2027)
• Area and Interest :
  • Machine Learning/Federated Learning Optimization
  • Cybersecurity/Supplychain Security

Bachelor of Science Honours in Computer Science

• University : University of Colombo School of Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• Status : Graduated with BSc Hons (First Class) in Computer Science (2017-2021)
• Thesis : A Decentralized Framework For Blacklisting Phishing URLs

Professional Experience

Research Engineer & Member: C2SI

• Work carried out:
  • Mainly involved in open source research projects.
• Technologies used: React JS, Firebase

Software Engineer: Enactor Limited

• Work carried out:
  • Developing new features in the Enactor product (POS and the Estate Manager/ Back Office),
  • Developing customer change requests, which included both developing new features and fixing bugs in Dunelm POS, Estate Manager, Back Office.
  • Assisted customers to migrate from older versions.
  • Assisted in delivering the releases also on certain cases with direct customer interaction.
  • Participated in customer issue triage calls & workshops
• Technologies used: Java, Docker, Docker Swarm, Jenkins CI/CD

Research Engineer & Member: SCoRe Lab

• Work carried out:
  • Along with my final year research work at University of Colombo School of Computing, I colloborated with SCoRe Lab and QCRI joined project (Titles: A Decentralized Framework for Blacklising Phishing URLs).
• Technologies used: Blockhain (Ethereum), React JS, Solidity, Node JS

Publications

2024

DT-FU: Digital Twin-Driven Federated Unlearning for Resilient Vehicular Networks in the 6G Era

Wathsara Daluwatta, Shehan Edirimannage, Charitha Elvitigala, Ibrahim Khalil, Mohammed Atiquzzaman IEEE Communications Magazine

2023

QARMA-FL: Quality-Aware Robust Model Aggregation for Mobile Crowdsourcing

Shehan Edirimannage, Charitha Elvitigala, Ibrahim Khalil, Primal Wijesekera, Xun Yi IEEE Internet of Things Journal

2022

PhishChain: A Decentralized and Transparent System to Blacklist Phishing URLs

Shehan Vidyakeerthi, Mohamed Nabeel, Charith Elvitigala, Chamath Keppitiyagama WWW ‘22: Companion Proceedings of the Web Conference 2022

Awards & Achievements

Silver Award - Best Software Product 2018 - Group Project, University of Colombo School of Computing

Google Summer of Code - 2019, TrackPal: A community-based Transportation Sharing Mobile Application, A Project with SCoRe Lab.

IEEE XTREME 11.0, National Top : 100, Sri Lankan Rank: 85 | Global Rank: 765, Team Neuron.

IEEE XTREME 12.0, National Top : 100, Sri Lankan Rank: 65 | Global Rank: 819, Team Neuron