I graduated from the Informatics Institute of Technology, Colombo, Sri Lanka with a first class honours degree in Information Systems. The same year, I received the gold medal for best graduating student. Before commencing research at Monash, I worked as a software engineer at OPRO Lanka Pvt Ltd, Colombo.
I grew up in Mount Lavinia, a quiet suburb on the west coast of Sri Lanka.
Mount Lavinia is home to the golden mile of beaches and S.Thomas' College which boasts a rich tradition of over 150 years - I'm proud to be numbered amongst its students.
My research is focused on artificial means of sustainable learning, understanding and long term memory. Extensions of contemporary unsupervised connectionist algorithms towards the development of a higher understanding of appication problem domains is the primary objective of my work. Sustenance of such an understanding is equally important, our interests in the architecture and operation of human long term memory seek to accomplish this.
Publications
1. Cluster Analysis using the GSOM: Patterns in Epidemiology, Daswin De Silva and Damminda Alahakoon, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, Melbourne, Australia, 2007
2. Analysis of Seismic Activity using the Growing SOM for the Identification of Time Dependent Patterns, Daswin De Silva and Damminda Alahakoon, International Conference on Information and Automation, Colombo 2006, Published in IEEE Xplorer 2006.
3. SmartFragment - Optimal Design of Distributed Databases, Daswin De Silva and Manjula Dissanayake, International Conference on Information and Automation, Colombo 2006, Published in IEEE Xplorer 2006
Teaching
I tutor the following units in Semester 1, 2008 at Clayton,
* FIT2006 Business Process Modeling and Workflow
* FIT5159 IT for Financial Decisions
Research Links
Immanuel Kant - Philosphical theories of the mind
Leonid Perlovsky - Physics of the mind
Rolls Lab - Brain imaging and neural computations
