Vibhatha Abeykoon

Vibhatha Abeykoon has a diverse work experience spanning various roles and companies. In 2021, Abeykoon worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Voltron Data. Prior to this, in 2020, they served as a Research Assistant at Indiana University Bloomington, where they contributed to the enhancement of the Cylon project and collaborated with the Science Working Group in MLCommons. They also worked as a Summer Research Intern at Microsoft during the same year.

Abeykoon's work experience at Indiana University Bloomington dates back to 2016, starting as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and later becoming a Research Assistant. They focused on cloud computing, engineering courses, and open source software development. Abeykoon provided teaching assistance, designed course materials, and conducted online support hours for students. They also worked on research projects related to parallelism in the SVM algorithm and frameworks like Spark, Harp, and Flink.

In 2019, Abeykoon was a Research Assistant at Indiana University Bloomington, where they focused on benchmarking distributed pipeline strategies and developing Pythonic APIs. They also served as a Teaching Assistant during that period. Earlier in 2019, Abeykoon worked as a Summer Research Intern at Argonne National Laboratory, analyzing the performance of image translation models on Edge TPU devices and proposing a methodology for scientific image restoration.

Before their academic roles, Abeykoon gained industry experience as a Software Engineer at Codegen International in 2016 and as a Founder at GaMo from 2014 to 2015. They also worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Codegen International (Pvt) Ltd in 2015, participating in the development and testing process of the National Help Desk application. Abeykoon started their career as a Software Engineering Intern at Brandix Casualware in 2013, working on projects using .NET Framework, C#, and ASP.NET.

Vibhatha Abeykoon's education history begins in 1996 when they attended Godapitiya Primary Matara and obtained a Grade 5 Schoolarship Examination. Vibhatha then went on to St. Thomas Boys' College, Matara, from 2001 to 2010, where they completed their Advanced Level studies with a focus on Mathematics.

In 2011, Vibhatha enrolled at the University of Ruhuna and pursued an undergraduate degree in the Faculty of Engineering, majoring in Electrical and Information Engineering. Vibhatha completed this program in 2015.

In the same year, Vibhatha also obtained a certification in real-time web development with Node.js from Code School. Furthermore, they completed multiple courses on Angular.js through Code School, though the specific details of those certifications (obtained month and year) are not available.

Vibhatha's journey in higher education continued at Indiana University Bloomington. Vibhatha pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Computer Engineering from 2016 to 2018 and later proceeded to earn a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in Intelligent Systems Engineering. Both of these degrees were obtained from Indiana University Bloomington. Vibhatha completed their PhD in June 2021.

Based on the available information, Vibhatha Abeykoon's education has primarily focused on engineering and computer-related fields, with a strong emphasis on intelligent systems engineering during their PhD studies.