Im originally from Sri Lanka and currently a systems researcher at Bremen University. I do research in the areas of HCI, Computer Vision (Bio Med), Distributed Systems, and Multi Objective Reinforcement Learning. At night I do volunteer research and development at
- AITR Lab, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa.
- Linux foundation and CNCF projects. While I have many other interests, As of Q4 2026, I spend most of my time working in urunc, OpenSearch and Apache Lucene.
My previous advisors are Prof. Roshan Godaliyadda, Prof. Peter Vamplew, and Dr. Thanuja Ambegoda
2024 - 2026 I worked at Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) School of Computing as lecturer. Previously 2022 - 2024, I worked at Codification, as a Consultant Platform Engineer. Previously I have also worked Open University (FT), NSBM Green University (FT), University of Kelaniya (PT), and Informatics Institute of Technology (PT) as a Lecturer. I’m also a recipient of the Most Valuable Professional(MVP) Award from Microsoft. I was also a mentee at LFX’26 - urunc by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
I hold MSc in Big Data Analytics from Robert Gordon University, where I did research with Dr Sameera Viswakula’s lab. I also have an MBA from PIM, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, where I did research with Dr Samantha Rathnayake. I also have a BSc(1st) in Software Engineering from University of Plymouth, where I worked with Dr Rasika Ranaweera’s lab.
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Journal Publications
2025
- L. B. Jayasooriya, N. C. Jayasinghe, I. Ekanayake , and D. P. Rangoda, “Perceived Tendencies of Skilled Migration Amidst the Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka: A Case Study of the Education Sector,” Migration and Development, 2025, Art. no. 21632324251343691.
Indexed Conference Proceedings
2026
- I. Ekanayake and S. De Alwis, “Explainability, risk modeling, and segmentation based customer churn analytics for personalized retention in e-commerce” 2026 6th International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC), Belihuloya, Sri Lanka, 2026, pp. 1–5, doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2510.11604
- C. Wanigasooriya and I. Ekanayake, “NimbusGuard A Novel Framework for Proactive Kubernetes Autoscaling Using Deep Q-Networks,” 2026 40th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Hanoi, Vietnam, 2026, pp. 726-731, doi: 10.1109/ICOIN68469.2026.11480646.
2025
- C. Wanigasooriya and I. Ekanayake , “NimbusGuard: A Novel Framework for Proactive Kubernetes Autoscaling Using Deep Q-Networks,” 2025, accepted and to be presented in 40th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN). IEEE.
- K. Gunathilake and I. Ekanayake , “K8s pro sentinel Extend secret security in kubernetes cluster” 2024 9th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR), 2024, pp. 1–5, doi: 10.1109/ICITR64794.2024.10857769.
- T. Mohomed and I. Ekanayake , “ARGO-SLSA Software Supply Chain Security in Argo Workflows,” 2025 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2025, pp. 245-250, doi: 10.1109/MERCon67903.2025.11217128.
2023
- I. Ekanayake, J. Warnakula and S. Viswakula, “Reverse Engineering Piping and Instrumentation Drawings A Deep Learning Approach” 2023 International Conference on Power, Instrumentation, Control and Computing (PICC), Thrissur, India, 2023, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/PICC57976.2023.10142454.
- I. Ekanayake and R. Ranaweera, “Augmented reality to improve motor functions and cognitive abilities of early childhood education” ACM SIGCHI Winter School – South Asia, 2023, pp. 1-4.
2022
- I. Ekanayake and S. Gayanika, “Data Visualization Using Augmented Reality for Education A Systematic Review,” 2022 7th International Conference on Business and Industrial Research (ICBIR), Bangkok, Thailand, 2022, pp. 533-537, doi: 10.1109/ICBIR54589.2022.9786403.
Conference Review Committees
2026
2025
2024
- Late Braking Work ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
- Workshop Interpretable, Inclusive, and Immersive Interaction for Ubiquitous AI-infused Physical Systems at UbiComp ISWC 2024
- Workshop HCI for User Wellbeing and Peace at International Conference on Architecture and Design (ICAD 2024)
Invited Talks and Presentations
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2026
- Agent Escaped the Sandbox? Unikernel Agent Sandboxing is all you need (Possibly)
- Predictive Kubernetes Autoscaling Past – Present – Future
- OpenSearch for AssociationRule Mining With ActivityWatch
- Beyond HPA, VPA and KEDA Proactive Kubernetes Autoscaling Using Deep Q-Networks
- CI CD and GitOps in Nutshell
- Judge Microsoft Imagine Cup 2026 Minimum Viable Product (MVP) round
2024
2023
2022
- Awareness sessions on competitive programming - IEEEXtreme16.0
- Content Creating to Double your value
- Guest Speech, Generation Z webinar
- Getting started with DevOps
- Introductory session for Google CodeJam
- Invited speech - Wycherley International School
- Podcast Difference between teaching in Academia Vs Industry
- Workshop on Python programming
2021
- Awareness sessions on competitive programming - IEEEXtreme10.0
- Awareness Session series on Competitive Programming
- Two days Algorithms and Data Structures workshop - Codesolveur
- Guest Speech - IEEE Student Branch AGM
- Keynote at the inauguration of Microsoft Learn Student Club
- Two days Machine Learning Workshop
