I am a Staff Research Scientist at Samsung Research America. I joined Samsung Research right after completing my PhD and since then working in the intersection of Knowledge Graphs, NLP/NLG, and Deep Learning.

Previously, I was a PhD candidate at Kno.e.sis Center, Wright State University. I joined Kno.e.sis Center in 2010 summer and had been working with my advisors Prof. Amit P. Sheth and Prof. T. K. Prasad. My research interest were mainly in fact summarization, data integration and alignment, semantic/cognitive computing, NLP, knowledge graphs, and Semantic Web technologies. Before graduate school, I completed my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with First Class Honors from UCSC of University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. I also worked as a software engineer in a reputed international company for one year and nine months after completing my bachelor's.

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NEWS Updates ...

Our paper on explainable joint NLU is accepted at EMNLP 2022.

Our paper on information seeking question generation is accepted at AAAI 2022.

Our paper on on-device information extraction accepted at CIKM 2021.

Two papers accepted at IJCAI 2020.

Best resource paper nominee at ESWC 2020.

Our paper titled Relatedness-based Multi-Entity Summarization is accepted at IJCAI2017 - April 2017.

Our paper on Intelligent Personal Assistant in collaboration with IBM is accepted at WWW2017 - February 2017.

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