Sumani Rajadurai

Sumani Rajadurai, PhD, currently serves as Assistant Vice President at John Keells Holdings PLC and Principal Machine Learning Engineer at OCTAVE - John Keells Group since March 2023. Previously, Sumani held positions at ADA from July 2018 to March 2023, where responsibilities included building and operationalizing AI products and machine learning models across eight countries. As CTO and Founder of Ganera from July 2017 to June 2018, Sumani established the company while also conducting research at the National University of Singapore from July 2011 to June 2018, focusing on programming languages and compilers. Earlier experiences include a PhD Graduate Student position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Software Engineer role at Excel Technology Lanka(Pvt).Ltd. Sumani holds a PhD in Computer Science from both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National University of Singapore, alongside a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa.