Presentations & Academic Contributions

Research Presentations
Beyond Translation: Rethinking 'Parallel Text' Across Disciplines
UCC Digital Humanities Colloquium
1 October 2025 · University College Cork

Presented a cross-disciplinary reframing of the concept of 'parallel text', examining how the term is understood differently across NLP, translation studies, and digital humanities — and what a unified computational treatment would require.

Language Modelling and Visualization for Parallel Text
CACSSS PhD Lightning Talks · University College Cork
4 April 2025 · University College Cork

Lightning talk introducing PhD research on LLM-powered text reuse detection and interactive visualization for parallel text analysis, presented to the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences research community.

Sentiment Reason Mining Framework for Analyzing Twitter Discourse on Critical Issues in US Healthcare Industry
International Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering 2023
June 2023

Presented the research paper at SCSE 2023.

Academic Contributions
Peer Reviewer
8th International Research Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE 2025)
Feb 2025

Evaluated academic papers on AI, NLP, and Machine Learning research; provided technical assessments and constructive feedback.

Evaluator — System Development Project Poster Presentation
Department of Industrial Management, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya
October 2023

Served as evaluator for student projects in System Development & Data Science.

Curriculum Development — Foundation to Data Science
Department of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of Ruhuna
August 2023

External consultant/reviewer for curriculum design. Covered: Introduction to Python, Data Preprocessing & Acquisition, Dimensionality Reduction, Data Splitting & Cross-validation, Overfitting & Underfitting, Performance Metrics.