Gayal Kuruppu

Gayal Kuruppu

PhD Student at UMN

About me

  • First year CS PhD student at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, MN, USA advised by Dr. Yogatheesan Varatharajah.

  • I worked as a Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Vision, MBZUAI, UAE under Assistant Professor Dr. Muhammad Haris Khan. My work is related to Domain Generalization and Network Calibration.

  • I worked as a Software Engineer in the R&D team at WSO2. My work was related to the compiler of the novel cloud native programming language, Ballerina. Mainly, I developed Java backend APIs for language support such as completions, code-actions, hover, .. etc.

  • I graduated from University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Engineering with a first class honours degree specializing in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering in 2021. I completed my thesis on “Virtual Try-on for Online Fashion” with Dr. Ranga Rodrigo.

  • I have completed my research internship in the Research team at WSO2, under the supervision of VP - Research & AI Dr. Malith Jayasinghe and Senior VP & Chief Architect Dr. Srinath Perera. I focused on analytically modeling the performance of the micro-services based systems.

  • My research interests lies on Computer Vision, Performance Analysis, Mathematical Modeling and Programming Languages.

Publications

News

  • Aug 2023 : Started working as a Graduate Research Assistant at Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, MN, USA
  • Nov 2022 : Started working as a Research Assistant at Computer Vision Department, MBZUAI, UAE
  • Oct 2022 : Published “Realistic, Animatable Human Reconstructions for Virtual Fit-On” preprint in Arxiv
  • Jul 2021 : Graduated from University of Moratuwa, Faculty of Engineering with 1st class honours degree specializing Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
  • May 2021 : Started working as a Software(Compiler) Engineer at WSO2
  • Aug 2020 : Attended the Cornell, Maryland, Max-Planck Pre-Doctoral Research School (CMMRS) 2020 in Saarbrucken, Germany
  • Jun 2020 : Published “An Analysis of Throughput and Latency Behaviours under Microservice Decomposition” in ICWE 2020
  • Jun 2019 : Started research internship at WSO2 research team