Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO

CV

QualificationsPositions
  • Graduate Certificate in Data Mining and Applications, Stanford University, 2015
  • Ph.D., Monash University, Mathematical Sciences, 2011
    • Thesis topic: "Axially Symmetric Volume Preserving Mean Curvature Flow"
    • Supervised by Maria Athanassenas
  • Masters Preliminary in Mathematics, Monash University, 2006
  • B.Sc.Eng. (Hons) in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, 2002
  • Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO (July 2022 - )
  • Lecturer, RMIT University (Feb 2020 - June 2022)
  • Research Fellow, University of Melbourne (Jan 2020 - Feb 2020)
  • Research Fellow, Monash University (Jan 2016 - Dec 2019)
  • Assistant Professor, DigiPen Institute of Technology, Singapore (Aug 2011 - Aug 2015)
AwardsGrants
  • Women of Colour in STEM Awards - Mathematics Mastery (2024)
  • Excellent Oral Presentation - International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (2024)
  • Impact and Engagement Award - ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (2020)
  • Impact and Engagement Award - ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (2018)
  • Vegetation Detection Challenge - 2nd Prize - Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victorian Government (2017)
  • Best Speaker - Pure Mathematics, Victorian Mathematics and Statistics Students’ Conference (2010)
  • Monash postgraduate travel grant award (2010)
  • Endeavour International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) (2007, Commonwealth Government Scholarship)
  • Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS) (2007)
  • Monash Graduate Scholarship (2007)
  • ARC Research Hub for Molecular Biosensors at Point-of-Use (MOBIUS), $4.7million, 2024, Partner Investigator
  • CSIRO R+ CERC Grant: Bias Anatomy - Disentangling Biases in Machine Learning Algorithms, $360,000, 2023, Principal Investigator
  • ACEMS Grant: Exploring strategies for the construction of algorithm portfolios, $20,000, 2021, Co-investigator
  • ACEMS Grant: “Novel water-quality monitoring for healthy platypus habitat, $20,000, 2021, Co-investigator
  • City of Whittlesea & RMIT Grant: Revolutionising monitoring of Waterway Health in Merri Creek, $10,000, 2020, Co-investigator
  • ACEMS Grant: Powerline bushfire safety, $13,000, 2017, Principal Investigator
  • Dept. Industry, Innovation and Science Grant: New mathematical models for data handling phase 2”., $13,000, 2016, Co-investigator
Selected Community Contributions