Bsc (Hons) (Robert Gordon University)
I am passionate about advancing my expertise in artificial intelligence and data science, always eager to learn new skills and confidently apply them toward achieving success. With a BSc (Hons) in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science from Robert Gordon University, UK, my areas of focus include big data analytics, artificial intelligence, deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), edge AI, explainable AI (XAI) and evolutionary computing. I am dedicated to staying abreast of new and emerging trends in the IT sector to continually enhance my knowledge and capabilities.
Keywords: Machine Learning / Deep Learning | Sinhala | Natural Language Processing | Sinhala Diachronic Corpus | Corpus |
Conference Papers
Anupama Wickramaratne, Thevindu Fernando, Tharupahan Jayawardana, Dehan Wijesinghe, Senindu Dinapura, Madara Mendis, Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva, and Sandareka Wickramanayake, "Impact of Cyclone Ditwah on the Colombo Stock Exchange: An Event Study on Market Reactions to Natural Disasters", in 2026 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2026, pp. 407-412. doi: 10.1109/MERCon71835.2026.11691317
Nevidu Jayatilleke, Nisansa de Silva, Uthpala Nimanthi, Gagani Kulathilaka, Azra Safrullah, and Johan Sofalas, "SiDiaC-v. 2.0: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus Version 2.0", in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026), Palma, Mallorca, Spain: European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 05. 2026, pp. 6740--6763. doi: 10.63317/2ybff4o55vrq
Nevidu Jayatilleke and Nisansa de Silva, "SiDiaC: Sinhala Diachronic Corpus", in Proceedings of the 39th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation, 2025, pp. 511--527.
Nevidu Jayatilleke and Nisansa de Silva, "Zero-shot OCR Accuracy of Low-Resourced Languages: A Comparative Analysis on Sinhala and Tamil", in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing-Natural Language Processing in the Generative AI Era, 2025, pp. 471--480.
Preprints
Nevidu Jayatilleke and Nisansa de Silva, "Dynamics of meaning: Towards the Evaluation of Diachronic Semantic Change in Sinhala", arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.08609, 2026
ActivePI: Nisansa de Silva
We propose to advance natural language processing for low-resource settings by leveraging data augmentation, transfer learning, and model adaptation techniques to overcome the scarcity of annotated data and linguistic resources.
ActivePI: Nisansa de Silva
This project aims to develop a comprehensive diachronic corpus for the Sinhala language, addressing the scarcity of historical linguistic resources for a language spoken by approximately 16 million people in Sri Lanka.
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.
