Awards and honors

  • Best Student Paper 2024 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC).
  • Travel Grant ACM Travel Grant recipient, ISFPGA / FPGA 2023.
  • Outstanding Poster USC Ming Hsieh ECE 14th Annual Research Festival, Fall 2024 (Taming Sparse Tensor Decomposition: Unified Acceleration Framework).
  • Best Paper Nominee Asilomar 2024; SBAC-PAD 2023; International Radar Conference 2023.
  • Ph.D. Scholar Finalist Ming Hsieh ECE, 2023–2024.
  • Mahapola merit scholarship for undergraduate studies, Sri Lanka.
  • All Sri Lanka Rank 81 in undergraduate university entrance (about 80,000 students).
  • All Sri Lanka Rank 16 in General Ordinary Level examination (about 400,000 students).

Academic and professional service

  • Local arrangements co-chair, IEEE FCCM 2023.
  • Web chair, IEEE HiPC 2022.
  • Publicity co-chair, IEEE HiPC 2022.
  • Publicity chair, IEEE HiPC 2021.
  • Artifact evaluator, IEEE FCCM 2023.
  • Journal reviewer: IEEE TPDS, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Pattern Recognition, ACM TACO.
  • Program Committee: IEEE FCCM 2026; Computing Frontiers 2026 (CF ‘26).
  • Committee member, SPEC OSG Cloud (contributor to SPEC Server Platform 2026 Benchmark).