![Dr. S.P. Pitigala](https://science.kln.ac.lk/depts/stcs/images/Staff/Academic/SPPitigala.jpg)
Dr. S.P. PitigalaSenior Lecturer (Grade II)
Office Location | : | A7-401/9 |
Telephone No | : | +94 (011) 2903 371 (ext: 371) | Email Address | : | piti@kln.ac.lk |
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Research Interests
Machine Learning
Teaching
- Fundamentals of Programming
- Programming in C
- Advanced Programming Concepts
- Software Engineering
- Computer Architecture & Operating Systems
- Compiler Design
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
Publications
Refereed Journal Papers:
- Damitha Sandaruwan, Sachintha Pitigala, Mangalika Jayasundara, Nihal Kodikara, Piyumi Radeeshani. “User Perceive Realism of Machine Learning-Based Drone Dynamic Simulator” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 14, No. 1, 2023.
- Damitha Sandaruwan, Mangalika Jayasundara , Nihal Kodikara, Sachintha Pitigala, “Machine Learning Based Approach to Simulate Drone Dynamics Related to Figure of Eight Maneuvering Pattern” European Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Vol.7, No.5, pp.16-25, October 2019.
- Sachintha Pitigala, Nimal Wickremasinghe, Ruwan Weerasinghe. “Automated Advertisements Classification System using Statistical Methods” University of Colombo Review. 2010; 2 (2).
Refereed Conference Papers:
- Sachintha Pitigala, Cen Li. "Classification Based Filtering for Personalized Information Retrieval" The International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering (IKE'15). 2015.
- Dammika Walpitage, Niranji Pathirage, Ruwan Chamara, Sachintha Pitigala, Gayan Silva. “Investigating the Reliability of a Batting Ability Measurement System for T20 Cricket: An Application of Random Effects ANOVA through Generalizability Theory” The International Statistics Conference. 2014: 214.
- Sachintha Pitigala, Cen Li. “Extending PubMed Related Article (PMRA) for Multiple Citations” Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). 2014: 55-69.
- Cen Li, Sachintha Pitigala, Suk Seo. “Identifying training sets for personalized article retrieval system” ACM Southeast Regional Conference. 2011. 350-351.
- Sachintha Pitigala, Cen Li, Suk Seo. “A comparative study of text classification approaches for personalized retrieval in PubMed” BIBM Workshops. 2011. 919-921.
Poster Presentations:
- Sachintha Pitigala, Cen Li. "Analyze and Visualize Naive Bayes Text Classifier on PubMed Citations" poster presentation, Scholars Day, MTSU. April 12th, 2013.
- Sachintha Pitigala, Cen Li. "Personalized Article Retrieval System - A Preliminary Study" poster presentation, Scholars Day, MTSU. March 30th, 2012.