BSc Eng. (Hons) (Moratuwa)
Hi, I am Akesh a Software Engineer at Sysco LABS Sri Lanka. I graduated from the Department of Computer Science Engineering University of Moratuwa. I am hardworking and passionate about learning, and exploring. Interested in Data Science and Machine Learning. As a Tutor, I have participated in many volunteering works.
Keywords: Natural Language Processing | Sinhala |
Conference Papers
Akesh Gunathilake, Nadil Karunarathne, Tharusha Bandaranayake, Nisansa de Silva, and Surangika Ranathunga, "LMSpell: Neural Spell Checking for Low-Resource Languages", in 2026 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2025, pp. 503-508. doi: 10.1109/MERCon71835.2026.11691371
ActivePI: Nisansa de Silva
We propose to build and analyze Sinhala language resources, datasets, and models to strengthen NLP research for this low-resource language, while connecting it to English and Tamil through bilingual lexicons, embeddings, and cross-lingual methods.