About me

I am currently studying as a Doctoral Student at the School of Computer Science, University of Sydney. My research interests include Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Algorithm Development and Optimization. I am also broadly interested in Cybersecurity with particular emphasis on privacy and security aspects of machine learning models. I received my BSc (Hons) degree in 2020 from the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri lanka.
Previously, I worked as a research intern at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization's (CSIRO) DATA61 Information Security and Privacy Research Group in 2018. I was supervised by Dr. Suranga Seneviratne and Dr. Guillaume Jourjon. After the completion of my Bachelor's degree, I worked as a Graduate Research Assistant with Dr. Ranga Rodrigo.

Preprints

  • Privacy-Preserving Spam Filtering using Functional Encryption
    Sicong Wang, Naveen Karunanayake, Tham Nguyen, Suranga Seneviratne
    [arXiv]

Journals

    2020

  • Multi-modal Neural Embeddings Approach for Detecting Mobile Counterfeit Apps: A Case Study on Google Play Store
    Naveen Karunanayake, Jathushan Rajasegaran, Ashanie Gunathillake, Suranga Seneviratne, Guillaume Jourjon
    To appear in proceedings of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2020 [Paper][Code]

Conference Papers

    2020

  • Towards a Smart Opponent for Board Games: Learning beyond Simulations
    Naveen Karunanayake, Achintha Wijesinghe, Chameera Wijethunga, Chinthani Kumaradasa, Peshala Jayasekara, Ranga Rodrigo
    In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics 2020 (SMC), Toronto, CA(Oral) [Paper][Code][Video]

    • 2019

  • A Multi-modal Neural Embeddings Approach for Detecting Mobile Counterfeit Apps
    Jathushan Rajasegaran, Naveen Karunanayake, Ashanie Gunathillake, Suranga Seneviratne, Guillaume Jourjon
    In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2019 (WWW), San Francisco, USA [Paper][Code] [Forbes][Scimex]

Awards

  • Runners Up - IEEE IAS CMD Robotics Demonstration Contest 2020, Michigan,USA
  • Bronze Award (Asia Pacific Region) - InnovateFPGA 2018
  • Dialog Merit Scholarship Award 2014 – For Outstanding performance in G.C.E Advanced Level 2014
  • Dialog Merit Scholarship Award 2011 – For Outstanding performance in G.C.E Ordinary Level 2011
  • The Best Student Award in Mathematics in the year of 2014 – Awarded by Rahula College