ENG. ASSOCIATE PROF. SANATH JAYASENA

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Research interests

• Parallel Computing

• 2026Adaptability of Construction 4.0 Technologies throughout the Project Life Cycle of Construction Projects: Project Managers’ PerspectiveK. K. G. P. Somarathna, Sanath Jayasena, B.A.K.S. Perera · Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction
• 2026Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Sinhala: A Critical Review of Methods, Challenges, and Future DirectionsChanuka Dinuwan, Sanath Jayasena, Buddhika Karunarathne · arXiv (Cornell University)
• 2026HyperNetwork-Based Prompt Tuning for Sinhala-English Code-Mixed and Code-Switched Sentiment AnalysisJ.P Anoja Somasiri, Sanath Jayasena · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2026nomp: A Framework for Building Domain Specific CompilersThilina Ratnayaka, Kaushik Kulkarni, Nipuna Fernando, Pubudu Hewavitharana, Hirumal Priyashan, Poorna Gunathilaka, Nagitha Abeywickrema, Ravindu Hirimuthugoda, Tarun Prabhu, Kirshanthan Sundararajah, Sanath Jayasena · arXiv (Cornell University)
• 2025An Integrated Sound-Based Traffic Control System (Green Light) for Ambulance Prioritization at Urban IntersectionsPipuni Wijesiri, Sanath Jayasena · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2025Intelligent Traffic Signal Optimization Using Sound-Based Ambulance Detection and Green-Light ExtensionPipuni Wijesiri, Shashika Lokuliyana, Sanath Jayasena, Sandaru Wijesiri, Anuradha Jayakody, Pradeep K. W. Abeygunawardhana · International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC)
• 2024Beyond Vanilla Fine-Tuning: Leveraging Multistage, Multilingual, and Domain-Specific Methods for Low-Resource Machine TranslationSarubi Thillainathan, Surangika Ranathunga, Songchen Yuan, Sanath Jayasena, En-Shiun Annie Lee · SSRN Electronic Journal
• 2024Lexicon‐based fine‐tuning of multilingual language models for low‐resource language sentiment analysisVinura Dhananjaya, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena · CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology
• 2023Accelerating language emergence by functional pressuresKasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Alex Xavier, Dumindu Tissera, Sanath Jayasena, Subha Fernando · PLoS ONE
• 2023AI Based Solution to Optimize the Fertilizer Composition in Hydroponics AgriculturePubudu Ekanayake, Subha Fernando, Ranga P. Rodrigo, Sanath Jayasena · International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC)
• 2022BERTifying Sinhala - A Comprehensive Analysis of Pre-trained Language Models for Sinhala Text ClassificationVinura Dhananjaya, Piyumal Demotte, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
• 2022Guaranteeing Service Level Agreements for Triangle Counting via Observation-based Admission Control AlgorithmChinthaka Weerakkody, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura · IEEE ... International Conference on Cloud Computing
• 2022Neural mixture models with expectation-maximization for end-to-end deep clusteringDumindu Tissera, Kasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Alex Xavier, Sanath Jayasena, Subha Fernando, Ranga P. Rodrigo · Neurocomputing
• 2022Quill: A Memory Efficient k-mer Counting and k-mer Querying Tool for Commodity ClustersBudvin Edippuliarachchi, Damika Gamlath, Ruchin Amaratunga, Gunavaran Brihadiswaran, Sanath Jayasena · International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology (ICBBT)
• 2022Semi-Automatic Alignment of Multilingual Parts of Speech TagsetsYashothara, S., Uthayasanker, R. T., Dias, G., V, Jayasena, S. · Computacion Y Sistemas
• 2021Bilingual Lexical Induction for Sinhala-English using Cross Lingual Embedding SpacesAdiesha Liyanage, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2021Effect of Dialogue Structure and Memory on Language Emergence in a Multi-task GameKasun Vithanage, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Alex Xavier, Dumindu Tissera, Sanath Jayasena, Subha Fernando · Communications in computer and information science
• 2021Fine-Tuning Self-Supervised Multilingual Sequence-To-Sequence Models for Extremely Low-Resource NMTSarubi Thillainathan, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2021Frigate: a fast, in-memory tool for counting and querying k-mersGunavaran Brihadiswaran, Sanath Jayasena · International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Technology (ICBBT)
• 2021Improving Back-Translation with Iterative Filtering and Data Selection for Sinhala-English NMTKoshiya Epaliyana, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2021On Large-Batch Training of Residual Networks with SignSGDAlex Xavier, Dumindu Tissera, Rukshan Wijesinghe, Kasun Vithanage, Ranga P. Rodrigo, Subha Fernando, Sanath Jayasena · International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence (ICAAI)
• 2021Resource aware scheduler for distributed stream processing in cloud native environmentsMadushi Sarathchandra, Chulani Karandana, Winma Heenatigala, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena · Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
• 2020Dialog policy optimization for low resource setting using Self-play and Reward based SamplingTharindu Madusanka, Durashi Langappuli, Thisara Welmilla, Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Sanath Jayasena · Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information, and Computation
• 2020Improved Speech Command Classification System for Sinhala Language based on Automatic Speech RecognitionLakshika Kavmini, Thilini Dinushika, Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Sanath Jayasena · International Journal of Asian Language Processing
• 2020Memory Efficient Graph Convolutional Network based Distributed Link PredictionDamitha Senevirathne, Isuru Wijesiri, Suchitha Dehigaspitiya, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura · IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)
• 2020Scalable Graph Convolutional Network based Link Prediction on a Distributed Graph Database ServerAnuradha Karunarathna, Dinika Senarath, Shalika Madhushanki, Chinthaka Weerakkody, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura · IEEE ... International Conference on Cloud Computing
• 2019An Analysis of Holistic Tail Latency Behaviors of Java MicroservicesPasindu Tennage, Srinath Perera, Malith Jayasinghe, Sanath Jayasena · IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE International Conference on Smart City; IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS)
• 2019Latency-Aware Secure Elastic Stream Processing with Homomorphic EncryptionArosha Rodrigo, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena · Data Science and Engineering
• 2019Privacy Preserving Elastic Stream Processing with Clouds Using Homomorphic EncryptionArosha Rodrigo, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena · Lecture notes in computer science
• 2019Rigel: A Framework for OpenMP PerformanceTuningPiyumi Rameshka, Pasindu Senanayake, Thulana Kannangara, Praveen Seneviratne, Sanath Jayasena, Tharindu Rusira, Mary W. Hall · IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE International Conference on Smart City; IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS)
• 2019Speech Command Classification System for Sinhala Language based on Automatic Speech RecognitionDinushika, Thilini, Kavmini, Lakshika, Abeyawardhana, Pamoda, Thayasivam, Uthayasanker, Jayasena, Sanath · PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING
• 2018Distinguishing Real Web Crawlers from Fakes: Googlebot ExampleNilani Algiriyage, Gihan Dias, Sanath Jayasena · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2018Domain Specific Intent Classification of Sinhala Speech DataBuddhika, Darshana, Liyadipita, Ranula, Nadeeshan, Sudeepa, Witharana, Hasini, Jayasena, Sanath, Thayasivam, Uthayasanker · PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING
• 2018Improving domain-specific SMT for low-resourced languages using data from different domainsFathima Farhath, Theivendiram Pranavan, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)
• 2018Improving Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation with Preprocessing TechniquesYashothara, S., Uthayasanker, R. T., Jayasena, S. · PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING
• 2018Integration of Bilingual Lists for Domain-Specific Statistical Machine Translation for Sinhala-TamilFathima Farhath, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2018Linguistic Divergence of Sinhala and Tamil languages in Machine TranslationDilshani, W. S. N., Yashothara, S., Uthayasanker, R. T., Jayasena, S. · PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN LANGUAGE PROCESSING
• 2018Named-Entity-Recognition (NER) for Tamil Language Using Margin-Infused Relaxed Algorithm (MIRA)Theivendiram Pranavan, U. Megala, N. Nilusija, Mokanarangan Thayaparan, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias, Surangika Ranathunga · Lecture notes in computer science
• 2018Si-Ta: Machine Translation of Sinhala and Tamil Official DocumentsSurangika Ranathunga, Fathima Farhath, Uthayasanker Thayasivam, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias
• 2018Voicer: A Crowd Sourcing Tool for Speech Data CollectionDarshana Buddhika, Ranula Liyadipita, Sudeepa Nadeeshan, Hasini Witharana, Sanath Jayasena, Uthayasanker Thayasivam · International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions
• 2018Voicer: A Crowd Sourcing Tool for Speech Data CollectionBuddhika, Darshana, Liyadipita, Ranula, Nadeeshan, Sudeepa, Witharana, Hasini, Jayasena, Sanath, Thayasivam, Uthayasanker · 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCES IN ICT FOR EMERGING REGIONS (ICTER)
• 2017An X10-Based Distributed Streaming Graph Database EngineMiyuru Dayarathna, Sathya Bandara, Nandula Jayamaha, Mahen Herath, Achala Madhushan, Sanath Jayasena, Toyotaro Suzumura · IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC)
• 2017A Scalable Hierarchical Semi-Separable Library for Heterogeneous ClustersIsuru Fernando, Sanath Jayasena, Milinda Fernando, Hari Sundar · Proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel Processing
• 2017Automatic creation of a word aligned Sinhala-Tamil parallel corpusMaryam Ziyad Mohamed, Anusha Ihalapathirana, Riyafa Abdul Hameed, Nadeeshani Pathirennehelage, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)
• 2017Autotuning multi-tiered applications for performanceVimuth Fernando, Sanath Jayasena · IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS)
• 2017Latency Aware Elastic Switching-based Stream Processing Over Compressed Data StreamsSajith Ravindra, Miyuru Dayarathna, Sanath Jayasena · ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE)
• 2017Neural machine translation for sinhala and tamil languagesPasindu Tennage, Prabath Sandaruwan, Malith Thilakarathne, Achini Herath, Surangika Ranathunga, Sanath Jayasena, Gihan Dias · International Conference on Asian Language Processing
• 2017OpenFOAM on GPUs using AMGXThilina Rathnayake, Sanath Jayasena, Mahinsasa Narayana · High Performance Computing Symposium
• 2017OpenFOAM on GPUs using AMGXThilina Rathnayake, Sanath Jayasena, Mahinsasa Narayana · High Performance Computing Symposium
• 2017Parameterized Diamond Tiling for Parallelizing stencil computationsThejan Wijesinghe, K. M. S. Senevirathne, Chathuranga Siriwardhana, W. Visitha, Sanath Jayasena, Tharindu Rusira, Mary W. Hall · Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon)