What we value the most about our research group is that we have a diverse range of expertise with individuals from different backgrounds; each of them is contributing with different perspectives to deliver something that is unique.
Meet our highly enthusiastic research group..!
Prof. Katrina Falkner (Executive Dean, ECMS), Adviser & Co-founder
Dr Thushari Atapattu (Research Associate), Lead & Co-founder
Dr Rebecca Vivian (Senior Research Fellow)
Dr Menasha Thilakaratne (Lecturer), Principal Researcher
Mr Mahen Herath, Research Assistant
Current junior staff & Students
- Ankit Yadav (Student Research Assistant) – Joint modeling of emotion and mental illness (Feb 2022 – present)
- Olivia Byrnes (Advanced Topics) – Toward personalised feedback by analysing argumentative structures in student writing (Feb 2022 – present)
- Jacob Schwarz (Advanced Topics) – Early prediction of fake news using social media (Feb 2022 – present)
- Lavendini Sivaneasharajah (PhD) – User roles in online learning context through linguistic expressions (2018-2022)
- Abhilash Sridara (PhD) – Evaluation of essay type answers in MOOCs using NLP techniques (2020 – 2023)
Past staff
- Dasuni Jayawickrama (Research Assistant) – Systematic literature review on emotion-cause extraction from unstructured text (Dec 2020 to Jan 2022)
- Gathika Ratnayaka (Research Assistant) – Advancing the detection of cyberbullying through role modeling (Feb 2020 to Sep 2020)
- Hamid Tarmazdi (Research Assistant) – Topic visualisation dashboard of MOOC discussions (2016)
Past students
- Dr Menasha Thilakaratne – Literature-based knowledge discovery using Natural Language Processing techniques (2017-2020)
- Sabby Saha (Masters of Data Science) – Multi-emotion modeling from Reddit data using NLP (2020-2021)
- Georgia Zhang (Honours in Computer Science) – Emotion-cause modeling from Natural Language text (2021)
- Dasuni Jayawickrama (Advanced Topics) – Emotion-trigger extraction from unstructured text (2021)
- Georgia Zhang (Advanced Topics in Computer Science) – Automatic identification of roles associated with cyberbullying posts (2020)
- Dung Anh Hoang (Summer Research student) – Advancing the detection of Cyberbullying in Social Media (2020)
- Georgia Zhang (Topics in Computer Science), Detection of Cyberbullying aginst minorities (2019)
- Dasuni Jayawickrama (Summer Research student), Discourse analysis of stack overflow threads (2020)
- Dung Anh Hoang (Topics in Computer Science) – Automated identification of mental health issues in Social media (2019)
- Alexa Ng (Topics in Computer Science), Impact of semantic relatedness of course content for video learning, 2018