Academics

• Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AK, USA [August 2023 – ].

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA [August 2019 – August 2023].

• Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Distributed Computing (EMJD-DC), Ph.D. [Sep 2014 – August 2019].
  • INESC-ID Lisboa / Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) – Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa), Portugal and Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. Degree Average: 18/20.
  • Thesis: Software-Defined Systems for Network-Aware Service Composition and Workflow Placement. Classification: Pass with Distinction. Advisors: Prof. Luís Veiga, IST and Prof. Peter Van Roy, UCLouvain.
• Erasmus Mundus European Master in Distributed Computing (EMDC), MSc. [Sep 2012 – Sep 2014].
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and IST – ULisboa, Portugal. Degree average: 17/20.
  • Master thesis at INESC-ID – An Elastic Middleware Platform for Concurrent and Distributed Cloud and MapReduce Simulations. Using in-memory data grids. Advisor: Prof. Luís Veiga.
• Honours Degree of Bachelor of the Science of Engineering, BSc (Eng). [July 2006 – Sep 2010].
  • Computer Science & Engineering. University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
  • First Class (8th in rank, among 100 in the batch), with a cumulative GPA: 3.80/4.20.

Professional experience

• Senior Systems Software Engineer, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA [June 2018 – August 2023].
  • Researched and developed Niffler, a radiology big data integration framework to query, retrieve, and process DICOM images and clinical data at scale from PACS and RIS systems in real-time or retrospectively.
  • Researched and developed CONTROL-CORE, a distributed execution framework for design and simulation of neuromodulation control systems with a lightweight visual editor to compose studies as workflows.
• Biomedical Informatics Software Engineer, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA [March – Oct 2016].
  • Developed and deployed Bindaas data access federation middleware to provide REST APIs for the Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA) with API key based authentication measures with Kong API Gateway.
• Software Engineer (Part-Time), UniPlaces, Portugal [Jan – Feb 2014].
  • Developed Robin, an open-source proxy for A/B testing, using NodeJs.
• Software Engineer, WSO2, Sri Lanka, the Open Source Middleware Company [Sep 2010 – July 2012].
  • Developed Stratos Cloud Platform and WSO2 Load Balancer for load balancing and auto-scaling of Stratos.
• Intern Software Engineer, WSO2. Developed an event monitoring web application [Oct 2008 – May 2009].

Research Visits

• King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia [Oct – Dec 2017].
  • Researched and developed a cloud-assisted overlay for a decentralized virtual Network-as-a-Service.
  • Advisor: Prof. Marco Canini. Funded by: ENDEAVOUR H2020 Project.
• SEIPLab, Faculty of Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia. [July 2015].
  • Researched and developed a reliable QoS-aware service composition framework for Internet of Services.
  • Advisor: Prof. Tihana Galinac Grbac. Funded by: ACROSS / COST Action IC1304.

Services

• Technical Program Chair, IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS) [2021 and 2023].
• Program Committee Member.
  • Portuguese National Conference on Informatics, INForum. Tópico Aberto em Áreas Emergentes, Multidisciplinares e Interdisciplinares [2023].
  • The IEEE International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS) [2019 – 2022].
  • The IEEE International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) [2021].
  • Intl. Science and Technology Conference, Modern Networking Technologies (MoNeTeC) – [2018 – 2022].
• Guest Editor, Special Issue, MDPI Electronics 2021.
  • “Services Computing and Software-Defined Systems for Future Internet.”
• Review Editor: Frontiers in High Performance Computing - High Performance Big Data Systems [2022].
• Editorial Board Member: MDPI Electronics [2020 – 2023].
• Reviewer Board Member: MDPI Future Internet [2020 – 2022] and MDPI Computers [2020 – 2022].
• External Reviewer for several journals and conferences.
• Program representative, Erasmus Mundus Association [EMJD-DC – 2016 and 2017; EMDC – 2013, 2017, and 2018].

Selected Awards

• Best Paper Award, SDS 2018. Barcelona, Spain.
• Portuguese National Research Grant (Bolsa de Mestre), funded by FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), the Portuguese Science Foundation / MCTES [2018 Jan – 2018 July].
• Erasmus Mundus Grants by EACEA [MSc: 2012 Sep – 2014 Aug. Ph.D.: 2014 Sep – 2017 Aug].
• Travel grant for ACRO 2017, International Summer School on Latency Control for Internet of Services.
• Emory University School of Medicine, Office of Postdoctoral Education Management Certificate. Fall 2020.