Recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF-GRFP), Lance Stafford Larson Award, Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society Award, Richard E. Merwin Scholarship, and ICT Student of the Year Award (2022). Published papers in SPLASH OOPSLA 2025, EXAIT@ICML 2025, ICML 2025, and other conferences.
Research Experience
Before joining UIUC, Chamika worked at WSO2, Nethermind Research, LiveRoom, Nirvana Labs, and Aegis Studio. He also conducted collaborative research with the Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Florida and with the CDAC center at La Trobe University.
Education
Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), advised by Prof. Charith Mendis. Previously, he conducted collaborative research with the Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Florida under Prof. Prabhat Mishra and with the Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition (CDAC) at La Trobe University under Prof. Damminda Alahakoon.
Background
Research interests: Compilers, Computer Architecture, Deep Learning, and Performance Optimization. His current research focuses on building data-driven cost models that guide compiler decisions across heterogeneous hardware platforms and diverse workloads.
Miscellany
Excited about a range of problems at the intersection of compilers, machine learning, and hardware systems, including learning data-efficient cost models, scalable techniques for accelerating system-level optimizations using ML, and robust compiler decisions under input sparsity and structural variation.