Yasasi Abeysinghe
 COVES Fellow Profile

Yasasi Abeysinghe

  • Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science
  • Old Dominion University
  • Joint Commission on Technology and Science

Yasasi Abeysinghe is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Old Dominion University. She is presently pursuing the areas of her research interest in data science, human-computer interaction, eye tracking, and virtual reality. Her contribution to these fields includes publishing papers in venues such as IEEE IRI, and ACM ETRA and reviewing papers for ACM CIKM, IEEE Big Data, ACM CHIIR, and ACM/IEEE JCDL conferences. Yasasi is the publicity chair of the ACM ETRA 2024 organizing committee. She graduated with a B.Sc. Engineering (Hons) degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, with first-class honors. Before starting her Ph.D. career, Yasasi worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Sysco LABS, Sri Lanka.

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. candidate, Computer Science, Old Dominion University
  • B.Sc. Engineering (Hons), Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka