Kanchana Thilakarathna
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Kanchana Thilakarathna

Google Scholar ID: V-YM7ecAAAAJ
University of Sydney
Mobile SystemsPrivacy & SecurityComputer NetworksMachine Learning
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Citations & Impact
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Citations
2,671
 
H-index
18
 
i10-index
32
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
20
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Contact
Emailkanchana.thilakarathna@sydney.edu.auTwitterOpen ↗
Publications
7 items
Memory Retrieval in Transformers: Insights from The Encoding Specificity Principle
2026
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SHIELD: An Auto-Healing Agentic Defense Framework for LLM Resource Exhaustion Attacks
2026
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FedVideoMAE: Efficient Privacy-Preserving Federated Video Moderation
2025
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RAG-HAR: Retrieval Augmented Generation-based Human Activity Recognition
2025
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A Multi-Drone Multi-View Dataset and Deep Learning Framework for Pedestrian Detection and Tracking
2025
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The Hidden Cost of Correlation: Rethinking Privacy Leakage in Local Differential Privacy
2025
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Personalizing Federated Learning for Hierarchical Edge Networks with Non-IID Data
2025
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Received the Malcolm Chaikin Prize in 2015 for his PhD thesis titled 'Moving from Clouds to Mobile Clouds: Cost-Efficient Privacy-Aware Mobile Content Delivery' and the iAwards 2015 for the best Postgraduate Tertiary Student in NSW, Australia.
Research Experience
  • Research Scientist at the Networks Group, Cyber-Physical Systems Research Program at Data61-CSIRO (formerly NICTA) from Nov 2014 to Aug 2017; over three years of industry experience as a Mobile Radio Network Optimisation Engineer; visiting researcher at INRIA, France in 2012.
Education
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from The University of New South Wales (2015), supervisor unknown; BSc Eng (Hons) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
Background
  • Research interests include cybersecurity, privacy, Internet of Things, mobile networks, and mixed reality. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, he was a Research Scientist at Data61-CSIRO's Networks Group.
Miscellany
  • Passionate about how smart devices have changed human lifestyles and dedicated to addressing the privacy issues that come with it.
Co-authors
20 total
Aruna Seneviratne
Aruna Seneviratne
Professor of Telecommunications, University of New South Wales
Suranga Seneviratne
Suranga Seneviratne
University of Sydney
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Mahbub Hassan
Mahbub Hassan
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney
Co-author 6
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Dali Kaafar
Dali Kaafar
Professor, Executive Director, Research Group Director Faculty of Science and Engineering Macquarie