PRADEEP JAYASURIYA

NLP Research Assistant

About Me

Professional Experience

Skills

Python - ScikitLearn, NLTK, Keras,

TensorFlow, Spacy

Machine learning & Deep learning

NLP - Text classification, Sentiment

analysis, Named entity recognition,

Word embeddings, Grammar error

correction

Data Analysis and Visualization

Statistics

Basic Handson experience:

AWS, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Hbase,

NOSQl, Cuda accelerated computing

Education Background

Computer Systems and Network Engineering (BSc. Hons.

- 4 years)

Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology - Malabe, Sri Lanka : 01.2016 - 08.2020

GPA - 2.91

My Contacts

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Sri Lankan institute of Information Technology

Research Assistant 2020 – Present

Eguardian Lanka, level 16, 278, Union Place, Colombo 2 Fortinet Technical Support International - Intern

01.2019 - 05.2019

Key outcomes:

·Five Research publications on sentiment analysis

·One pending publication on Named entity recognition Key responsibilities:

Analyzed hardware and software errors of Fortinet

networking appliances and provided solutions for

international customers

GCE Advanced Levels (Biology Stream)

Ananda College, Colombo 05 : 08.2012 - 08.2015

Index no: 6180574

Biology - S Physics - S Chemistry - S General English - C General Information Technology - B

GCE Ordinary Levels

Isipathana College, Colombo 05 : 01.2010 - 12.2011 IResult - 9 A's Index no: 12375764

Key Responsibilities:

Data acquisition and preprocessing

Defining methodologies

Constructing and Evaluating sentiment analysis models Communicating the analyzed findings

Red Hat Certified System Administrator: 01.2019 - 01.2022 Certification ID: 190026260

A motivated and skilled research assistant

with a passion for Data science and

natural language processing (NLP) and

three years of hands-on experience in

developing and executing NLP projects.

Possessing a solid technical background

in Machine Learning and NLP techniques,

along with a proven ability to work

independently and in a team setting to

deliver high-quality results.

Awards Certifications

1st place - IET Sri Lanka annual technical

conference 2020

MSc in Data science and Artificial intelligence

University of Moratuwa - depart. of Computer Science and Engineering, Sri Lanka : (Present)

www.linkedin.com/in/pradeep-sj

https://github.com/Pradeep1070

PRADEEP JAYASURIYA

NLP Research Assistant

Publications

"Sentiment classification of Sinhala content in social media," International Research Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2020, pp. 136-141, doi: 10.1109/SCSE49731.2020.9313023.

“Sentiment Classification of Sinhala Content in Social Media: A Comparison Between Word N-Grams and Character N-Grams” 27th Annual Technical Conference of the IET Sri Lanka Network, Colombo, Sri Lanka

"Sentiment Classification of Sinhala Content in Social Media: A Comparison between Stemmers and N-gram Features," IEEE 16th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2021, pp. 134-139, doi: 10.1109/ICIIS53135.2021.9660711

"Sentiment Classification of Sinhala Content in Social Media: An Ensemble Approach," IEEE 16th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2021, pp. 140-145, doi: 10.1109/ICIIS53135.2021.9660656.

“Grammar Error Correction for Less Resourceful Languages: A Case Study of Sinhala,” IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ICIIS58898.2023.10253578 Reffernces

Prof. Samantha Theiljjagoda

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research &

International), SLIIT

Ph.D. in Information Systems

Engineering, Gifu University, Japan

M.Eng. in Electronics and Computer

Engineering, Gifu University, Japan

B.A. in Statistics (Special) First Class

Honours, University of Sri

Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka

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Dr. Ranjiva Munasinghe

Assistant professor, SLIIT Business

school

CEO/Director, MIND Analytics &

Management.

PhD Mathematics, University of

Warwick, UK

MA Mathematics, Cambridge

University, UK

BSc. Mathematics & Physics,

University of Warwick, UK

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