Kaushalya was a researcher working on the Big Data for Development (BD4D) project. Prior to joining LIRNEasia he worked as a Senior Software Engineer at a leading IT company in Sri Lanka. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Department of Computer Science, University of Moratuwa and a Master’s degree in Computer Science at University of Colombo.His areas of interest include Machine Learning, Heterogeneous Parallel Computing and Social Network Analysis. He left LIRNEasia to pursue his PhD in Tokyo Institute of Technology.