Dr Praboda Rajapaksha

Dr Praboda Rajapaksha

Lecturer in Health Data Science

Department of Computer Science

Contact Details

Profile

In her capacity as a Lecturer in Health Data Science and an Honorary Data Scientist in the UK, she possesses extensive expertise encompassing Generative AI, Language Modeling, NLP, Deep Learning, and Data Analysis. Her professional journey has been marked by the application of diverse AI techniques across various research domains, including Data Analytics (covering social media, news, healthcare, and video data), as well as engagement in Digital Twin operations and the planning of Smart Cities.

Her active participation in many European projects (ITEA, BPI, Horizon), French national projects (FUI), and industrial collaborations attest to her unwavering dedication to practical and impactful research, fostering collaborative relationships with both academic and non-academic partners. Of notable significance is her passion for exploring the potential of cutting-edge Generative AI models and their real-world applications within the healthcare sector.

Teaching

Lecturer
Moderator

Research Groups

  • Athena SWAN

Publications

Ding, L, Rajapaksha, P, Myat, AK, Farahbakhsh, R & Crespi, N 2024, Can Hallucination Reduction in LLMs Improve Online Sexism Detection? in K Arai (ed.), Intelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2024 Intelligent Systems Conference IntelliSys Volume 1. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 1065 LNNS, Springer Nature, pp. 625-638, Intelligent Systems Conference, IntelliSys 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 05 Sept 2024. 10.1007/978-3-031-66329-1_40
Jafari, AR, Rajapaksha, P, Farahbakhsh, R, Li, G & Crespi, N 2024, 'Unveiling Human Values: Analyzing Emotions behind Arguments', Entropy, vol. 26, no. 4, 327. 10.3390/e26040327
Drobot, A, Minerva, R, Crespi, N, Benmiloud-Bechet, L, Bonomi, F, Heininger, R, Jost, TE, Lee, GM, Kovacs, E, Moreau, N, Rajapaksha, P, Savaglio, C, Song, JS & Stary, C 2023, Summary of the 2nd Workshop on Digital Twins and the Internet of Things at IEEE WF-IoT 2023. in 2023 IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT): The Blue Planet: A Marriage of Sea and Space. IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), IEEE Press, 2023 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things, Hybrid, Aveiro, Portugal, 12 Oct 2023. 10.1109/wf-iot58464.2023.10539467
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