Ms. . MVPT Lakshika

Bsc (Hons) in CS (UWU), Ph.D. (Col), CTHE (Col), SEDA (UK)

Lecturer


Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation

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Conference Papers
3
Conference Abstracts
0
Posters
1
Journal Papers
5
Books
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Book Chapters
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Other
1

Biography

Academic

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Colombo School of Computing, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka.

Bsc (Hons) in Computer Science & Technology, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka.

Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE) (2023), Staff Development Center, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA), UK (2023) Accreditation for Learning, Teaching and Assessing in Higher Education.

Awards

The Best Doctoral Research Presentation Award

This research titled 'Association Rule-Based Scoring for Event-Centric Semantic Knowledge Graphs: A Deep Learning Framework for Embedded Knowledge Representation for Abstractive News Summarization' was presented at the Doctoral Symposium (ICAS 2025), Faculty of Applied Science, University of Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, on 16th October 2025 where it received the Best Doctoral Research Presentation Award.

Teaching

Undergraduate

[2022] Teaching

SCS4204/IS4103/CS4104 Data Analytics

IS 2104 Rapid Application Development

[2025] Teaching

IS1210 Database Systems

SCS1309 Database Management Systems

[2025] Coordination

IS4101 Final Year Project in Information Systems

Employment

Lecturer (Probationary) - University of Colombo School of Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Lecturer (Probationary) - Institute of Technology University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Assistant Lecturer - University of Colombo School of Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Instructor - University of Colombo School of Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Associate Software Engineer - Eutech Cybernetic, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Intern Software Engineer - LOLC Technologies Limited, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Professional Activities

Consultation

Projects

Publications

2025

Lakshika M.V.P.T., Caldera H.A., De Zoysa TNK, (September 2025), "ECS-KG An event-centric semantic knowledge graph for event-related news articles" , in Data & Knowledge Engineering , vol.159
Lakshika MVPT, Caldera HA, (September 2025), "ASF A novel associative scoring function for embedded knowledge graph reasoning" , in Data & Knowledge Engineering , vol.161
Lakshika MVPT, Caldera HA, (May 2025), "Utilizing Association Rules in Knowledge Graphs for Enhanced News Summarization" , in International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions 2025 [Special Issue] , vol.18(2) , Colombo, Sri Lanka.

2023

Kuruppu, H., Tharuka, S., Sathindra, S., Weerasinghe, T., Lakshika, T., (10-13 July, 2023), "Design Implications To Digitally Represent The Memory of Visited Webpages" , in 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) , pp.19-24 , Orem, UT, USA.

2022

Lakshika M.V.P.T., Caldera A., (October 2022), "Association Rules for Knowledge Discovery From E-News Articles A Review of Apriori and FP-Growth Algorithms" , in Advances in Science, Technology and Engineering Systems Journal , vol.7(5), pp.178-192

2021

Lakshika M.V.P.T., Caldera H.A., (Sept 2021), "Knowledge Graphs Representation for Event-Related E-News Articles" , in Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (MAKE) , vol.3(4), pp.802-818 , Basel, Switzerland

2020

Lakshika M.V.P.T., Caldera H.A., Welgama W.V., (November 2020), "Abstractive Web News Summarization Using Knowledge Graphs" , in 20th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer 2020) , pp.300-301 , Colombo, Sri Lanka

2019

Lakshika MVPT, (February 2019), "Modeling the Semantic Significance in Non-Factoid Question-Answer Pairs in Online Discussion Forums Based on Deep Belief Networks" , in International Research Conference (IRCUWU 2019) under the theme of “Sustainable Business Transition through Technology and Innovations”, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka. , Badulla, Sri Lanka.

2017

Lakshika MVPT, Sanjeewanie H. D. Senanayake, (January 2017), "Ranking Environmental Problems In Sri Lanka Using Crowd-sourcing And Natural Language Processing" , in International Research Symposium (IRSUWU) 2017 with the theme of “Global Trends towards Technopreneurial Development”, Uva Wellassa University, Badulla, Sri Lanka. , Badulla, Sri Lanka.

2016

Lakshika MVPT, Sanjeewanie H. D. Senanayake, (December 2016), "Incident Crowdsourcing Tracking and Ranking Application for Environmental Problems and Issues in Sri Lanka using Natural Language Processing" , in International Research Symposium on Pure and Applied Sciences (IRSPAS-2016), Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. , Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.