About me

My research interests are in physics-informed machine learning, mathematical modeling, computational imaging, optical neural networks, deep learning, and signal processing. I am particularly interested in working at the intersection of optics and machine learning to improve imaging devices.

I was a post-bac fellow affiliated with Wadduwage lab in Center for Advanced Imaging at Harvard University. At Wadduwage lab, under the supervision of Dr. Dushan Wadduwage, I was working on modeling and training learnable optical systems taking fabrication constraints and noise into consideration. I am also working on modeling optical non-linear activations for learnable optical systems to increase their performance.

Before joining Wadduwage lab, I completed my B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (1st class, CGPA: 4.14/4.20, Rank: 2/115). I also worked as a Visiting Researcher (Student) at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney under the supervision of Dr. Anusha Withana.

I recently started doing astrophotography as a hobby. I also like to watch movies and travel in my free time and I enjoy playing cricket and chess.

News

March, 2024:   Dr. Anusha Withana presented our work on computationally assisting users for humor generation at IUI’24.

March, 2024:   Our paper “Towards ultrafast quantitative phase imaging via differentiable microscopy” got publised in Biomedical Optics Express.

January, 2024:   Kithmini presented our work “Sparse optical neural architectures for quantitative phase imaging” at SPIE 2024.