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Research

Research

Published and ongoing work spanning gender equity in academia, hybrid work effectiveness, and the recruitment AI I build at Knovik.

Published

Effects of Glass Ceiling on Women's Career Blooming in Sri Lankan Academic Sector

ResearchGate

A study on the structural barriers limiting women's career progression in Sri Lanka's academic sector.

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MBA Research

Factors Influencing Effectiveness of Hybrid Work Environments in Large-Scale IT Companies

MBA Business Research Project, London Metropolitan University (ESOFT Metro Campus), 2024–2025

A study of trust, autonomy, clear expectations, communication, and supportive leadership as drivers of hybrid work effectiveness across large IT organizations.

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Award · EICON 2026

EdgeTal: On-Device Agentic RAG for Privacy-Preserving Talent Discovery

EICON 2026 — ESOFT International Conference

Research on running semantic candidate search and evaluation entirely on-device, without candidate data ever leaving the recruiter's hardware.

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Award · AIRC 2026

From Surveys to Signals: Interpretable Machine Learning for Predicting Employee Commitment and Hybrid-Work Effectiveness in Sri Lankan IT Firms

APIIT International Research Conference (AIRC) 2026

My account, as co-author and conference presenter, of what happens when HR teams read machine-learning driver rankings built from highly correlated survey data, and what to do instead.

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