Ramith Hettiarachchi

Ramith Hettiarachchi

25 Jun 03

Started work as a Research Intern at NEC Labs America

24 Jun 22

Attended the MLDD Summer School & Molecular Machine Learning Conference @ MILA 🇨🇦 (Our team won the Kinase Selectivity Prediction Challenge 🎉)

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24 May 16

Aya Dataset (open-access multilingual instruction dataset) accepted to ACL 2024! 🎉

24 Feb 13

An inspiring open science journey to remember 💙

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23 Jun 24

📑 Papers accepted to workshops, Sampling and Optimization in Discrete Space (SODS) ፨ and Differentiable Almost Everything (DiffAE) 〆 at ICML 2023 🎉

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23 May 15

Lion Optimizer (optimizer discovered through evolutionary search)

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23 Feb 11

ESM-2 (evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic level protein structure with a language model)

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Some things I care about (or used to do) during my free time...

Open Science Effort to Accelerate Multilingual AI

Project Aya - Sinhala/සිංහල

Working alongside likeminded Sinhala speaking individuals who'd love to see our language thrive in the current NLP advancement landscape.
(2023 - Present)

Audiobook library

Manusath Handa

We built on online platform to gather and disseminate audiobooks (Sinhala/Tamil) to visually impaired students.
(Contributed while I was an Undergrad).

Some Visualization Tools I've built

Algorithm
Visualizer

D* Lite Algorithm

As part of my internship, I wanted to implement the D* Lite algorithm, with dynamic obstacle creation aspect. (WebAssembly)

Convolutional NN Visualizer

Project Intelliscope

As part of a medical research, built a model visualization tool to get more intuition on what sort of learning has the model performed. (TensorSpace.js)

Multi-Core Processor

FPGA Group Project

To test our ISA and the functionality of any assembly code, I developed a tool to simulate the activity of each core. (p5.js)