Achievements
Awards and presentations
Grants, competition results, and invited talks.
Awards and grants
Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme Grant Recipient
Novel methods of data integration and federated learning for individual-privacy applications.
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Co-investigator with Peter Christen, Charini Nanayakkara, Graham Williams, Erhard Rahm, Victor Christen, Maja Schneider, Lucas Lange, and Florens Rohde.
Australia–Germany Joint Research Cooperation Scheme Grant Recipient
Development of secure and accurate binary encodings for multi-domain privacy-preserving record linkage
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Co-investigator with Peter Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, Rainer Schnell, and Sarah Redlich.
SIGIR Student Travel Grant
Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM).
People's Choice Award ‐ Three Minute Thesis
University-level finals, ANU. Watch the presentation.
College-level Winner ‐ Three Minute Thesis
College-level finals, ANU, Canberra.
Research Consultancy for Australian Bureau of Statistics
An Evaluation of Hashing, Encoding, Hardening and Cryptanalysis Attacks on Bloom Filter based Privacy-preserving Record Linkage.
Co-investigator with Peter Christen, Thilina Ranbaduge, and Sirintra Vaiwsri.
Postgraduate research scholarship and Higher degree research fee remission merit scholarship
The Australian National University.
Best Paper Award
8th Annual Research Symposium, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka.
Professor V. K. Samaranayake Medal
For the most outstanding graduate of the University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka.
Best Final Year Project Award
Fourth-year undergraduate group research project, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka.
Presentations
Invited speaker
2026Australian Government Linked Data Working Group Monthly Plenary Meeting
Implementing Encrypted Private Data Sharing between Personal Data Vaults.
Invited speaker
2025ScaDS.AI colloquium, Leipzig University, Germany
Data Privacy through Decentralised Data Storage Solutions: Personal Online Datastores.
Invited speaker
2025ANU Integrated AI Network \ ECR Community
Linking Sensitive Data: Methods and Vulnerabilities.
Invited speaker
2024W3C Solid Community Group
SOLID PODs based architecture for software development.
Presenter
2023PyCon AU. See presentation here
Building Health Software on Decentralised Health Data Using Personal Online Datastores.
Invited speaker
2023Canberra Python User Group, July Meetup
Personal Online Datastores for Data Governance and Consented Data Sharing.
Invited speaker
2022A workshop on Indigenous data sovereignty organised by Yarrabah Leaders Forum in Queensland, Australia
Shifting the lens: from the known to the unknown in Indigenous data systems and data and Information.
Invited speaker
20228th International ScaDS.AI Summer School on AI and Big Data, Leipzig, Germany
Linking Sensitive Data: Approaches and Vulnerabilities.
Invited speaker
2019China Scholarship Council Student Affairs Administrators' Programme
Three Minute Thesis presentation.
Invited speaker
2019Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage Workshop, Data61, Sydney
Pattern mining based cryptanalysis of Bloom filters for privacy-preserving record linkage.