Intern AI/ML Research Engineer (Computer Vision)
Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka - Onsite
September 2025 - April 2026
Worked on a Train-Elephant collision prevention system using thermal vision, segmentation, and embedded deployment.
- Researched a thermal vision-based elephant collision detection system using YOLOv8 and Vision Transformers, reaching 85.66% accuracy in low-visibility conditions.
- Optimized inference on NVIDIA Jetson TX2 with quantization and memory improvements for strict latency limits.
- Reduced GPU utilization from 23% to 9% through TensorRT optimization.
- Built a TCP/IP-based gimbal controller by reverse engineering communication from captured network traffic.
- Engineered a computer vision pipeline by merging two segmentation models to automate camera rotation and object detection, improving the system's responsiveness.
- Developed a full-stack satellite image processing web application using Google Earth Engine for flood detection and monitoring in Sri Lanka.