Hi, I’m Shehan.

Ph.D. candidate in the Intelligent Systems Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), supervised by Prof. Qiang Ji. My research focuses on computer vision and probabilistic machine learning. Currently, I’m working on open-world object detection.

Focus: Computer Vision, Human Action recognition, Probabilistic Machine Learning, Uncertainty Quantification, Bayesian Deep Learning

About Me

Quick Overview

I’m a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the Intelligent Systems Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), advised by Prof. Qiang Ji. My research focuses on human action recognition and uncertainty-aware video understanding, using Bayesian deep learning and probabilistic machine learning to build more reliable models.

Academic Experience

Roles

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant

Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — USA

Fall 2023; Summer & Fall 2024; Summer & Fall 2025; Spring 2026 — Graduate Research Assistant (projects funded by DARPA)
Spring 2024 — ECSE 2010: Electric Circuits
Spring 2025 — ECSE 2410: Signals and Systems
Spring 2025 — ECSE 4966/6966: Computational Creativity

Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya — Sri Lanka
September 2021 – July 2023

Educational Background

Timeline

Ph.D. in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) — USA
Ongoing

B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya — Sri Lanka
2021

Publications

Papers

Image-Based Condition Monitoring of Transmission Line Conductors Using Image Processing and Deep Neural Networks

S. K. Senavirathna, H. Udawatte, N. Harischandra, M. Fernando, and C. Ekanayake. 2023 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS). DOI: 10.1109/ICIIS58898.2023.10253531.

Vehicle Tracking Based on an Improved DeepSORT Algorithm and the YOLOv4 Framework

I. Perera, S. Senavirathna, et al. 2021 10th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS). DOI: 10.1109/ICIAfS52090.2021.9606052.

Contact

Reach out

You can contact me at senavk@rpi.edu.