Degrees, research and certifications.
A computer-science degree in progress at a 3.96 GPA, with six President’s List awards and an earlier First Class business degree. Alongside it: cybersecurity research on an MPhil track, peer-review work, and fourteen professional certifications.
Degrees and research preparation
Current and completed academic work, most recent first.
University of the People, Pasadena, California · currently enrolled.
GPA 3.96 / 4.0General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka. Research synopsis and topic development on malware classification with machine learning: literature review, static and dynamic feature engineering, model training, and evaluation for robustness and concept drift.
University of the People, Pasadena, California · completed.
High HonorsUniversity of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
First ClassIHK (German Chamber of Industry and Commerce) · dual apprenticeship.
Academic distinctions
Awards recorded by the awarding institution.
University of the People. Awarded in November 2024, January 2025, September 2025, November 2025, January 2026 and March 2026.
Out of 4.0 in the ongoing B.Sc. Computer Science programme; the preceding A.S. was completed with High Honors.
B.A. Business Administration at the University of Hertfordshire. First Class is the highest UK undergraduate classification.
ShieldLink opened issue 5(2) of the International Journal of Research in Computing as the lead article.
Professional certifications
Fourteen certifications spanning service delivery, project and agile methods, security, and cloud.
Applied competencies
Where the training actually gets used.
Service delivery & ITSM
Project & product methods
Systems & operations
Security & assurance
Review and research practice
Academic activity beyond degree work.
Peer review
Reviewer for the 6th Student Symposium of the Faculty of Computing at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University in 2025.
In write-ups I keep implemented work, experimental results, prototypes and proposed directions clearly apart, the same way the project pages do.
Research themes
Cybersecurity and detection, database and storage systems, and formal methods where they genuinely strengthen a claim. Some of the work sits closer to philosophy of computation than to engineering.
Research identifiers
Public identifiers are the cleanest route to the authorship record; the publication page mirrors ORCID and links every DOI directly.