Scholar
Dulanga Weerakoon
Google Scholar ID: WK3bdIwAAAAJ
Postdoctoral Associate, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology
Citations & Impact
Citations
122
H-index
6
i10-index
4
Publications
18
Co-authors
8
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - "Ges3ViG: Incorporating Pointing Gestures into Language-Based 3D Visual Grounding for Embodied Reference Understanding", CVPR 2025
- - "NeuroViG - Integrating Event Cameras for Resource-Efficient Video Grounding", WACV 2025
- - "CAS: Fusing DNN Optimization & Adaptive Sensing for Energy-Efficient Multi-Modal Inference", RA-L, ICRA 2025
- - "Towards Efficient Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding in Pervasive Mobile Devices", ACM MobiSys 2024
- - "VGGlass - Demonstrating Visual Grounding and Localization Synergy with a LiDAR-enabled Smart-Glass", ACM SenSys 2023
- - "Demonstrating Multi-modal Human Instruction Comprehension with AR Smart Glass", COMSNETS 2023
- - "SoftSkip: Empowering Multi-Modal Dynamic Pruning for Single-Stage Referring Comprehension", ACM Multimedia 2022
- - "COSM2IC: Optimizing Real-time Multi-Modal Instruction Comprehension", IROS 2022
- - Successfully defended Ph.D. thesis titled, "Enabling and Optimizing Multi-Modal Sense-Making for Human-AI Interaction Tasks"
Research Experience
- - Postdoctoral Associate at SMART Research Centre, MIT, under the supervision of Prof. Sanjay Sarma and Prof. Archan Misra, as part of the Mens, Manus, and Machine (M3S) program
- - Developing human instruction comprehension algorithms that process input from various modalities including vision, language, and human gestures
- - Proposed several fusion techniques and optimization strategies to enhance instruction comprehension accuracy while reducing latency and energy overheads
Education
- - Ph.D. in Computer Science, Singapore Management University, August 2019 - August 2024
- - Specialization: Human-AI Collaboration
- - Supervisor: Prof. Archan Misra
- - Co-Supervisor: Dr. Vigneshwaran Subbaraju
- - BSc(Hons) in Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, January 2017 - January 2018
- - Specialization: Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
- - Supervisor: Dr. Ranga Rodrigo
- - Co-Supervisor: Dr. Ajith Pasquel
Background
- - Research Interests: Multi-modal sensing, Human-AI collaboration, low energy consumption, minimal latency, and efficient computational requirements
- - Field of Expertise: Computer Science
- - Brief Introduction: Postdoctoral Associate at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), focusing on multi-modal sensing for human-AI collaboration on pervasive devices.
