Experience

• Security Data Scientist [Obsidian Security, USA. (2022-present)]
• PhD Research [SUNY Binghamton, USA. (2018-2022)]
1. Explainable AI for Malware Classification: [DSN'22]
2. Real-Time and Adversarial Anomaly Detection: [BIGDATA'19] [CODASPY'21]
3. Blockchain based tamper proof storage of Scientific Workflows: [CIC'19]
• Graduate Research Assistant [SUNY Binghamton, USA. (2017-2018)]
1. Deep Learning for Wireless Channel Quality Prediction: [ICC'19] [TVT'19]
2. Modeling Wireless Cache Networks: [ICC'18] [TVT'18]

Research Collaborations

• Applying AI for Cleaner Cities: [IEEE Access'22]

Recent Blog Posts

22 Dec 23

Explaining Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based Malware Classification

21 Dec 15

Fooling AI-based System Log Anomaly Detection

20 Dec 27

Anomaly detection with Deep AutoEncoders

20 Apr 09

RAMP: Real-Time Aggregated Matrix Profile

19 Aug 18

Time series prediction with Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs)

19 Mar 24

Making TA-life easier: Bash scripts for grading

18 Dec 23

Adding git support to Terminal

18 May 19

Finding cycles in linked lists

Recent Publications

• Exploring Machine Learning and Deep Learning Approaches for Multi-Step Forecasting in Municipal Solid Waste Generation by Oshan Mudannayake, Disni Rathnayake, Jerome Dinal Herath, Dinuni K. Fernando and Mgnas Fernando. In: IEEE Access (2022).
• CFGExplainer: Explaining Graph Neural Network-Based Malware Classification from Control Flow Graphs by Jerome Dinal Herath, Priti Prabhakar Wakodikar, Ping Yang and Guanhua Yan. In: IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) (2022).
• Real-Time Evasion Attacks against Deep Learning-Based Anomaly Detection from Distributed System Logs by J. Dinal Herath, Ping Yang and Guanhua Yan. In: Proceedings of The 11th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY) (2021). [presentation video]

Awards and Scholarships

• Award for Academic Excellence in PhD (State University of New York at Binghamton-2022).
• Student travel grant to attend IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC-2019).
• Secure and Private AI scholarship Challenge Recipient by Udacity and Facebook (2019).
• Student travel grant to attend ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications (ANCS-2018).
• Student travel grant to attend International Conference on Communications (ICC-2018).
• Recipient of Dr. Sarath Gunapala Gold Medal for Computational Physics (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka-2017).
• MIND (Munasinghe Institute for Development, Sri Lanka) scholarship (2015-2016).