Vidura Wijekoon

Co-founded and operationally lead Sri Lanka's first community chapter dedicated to AI safety, governance, and ethics, building the volunteer team and community infrastructure.

Conducting and mentoring people with knowledge of 'AI for everyone'.

Lead end-to-end data-to-model lifecycle for client-side AI/ML engagements, managing a team of 8 engineers and implementing MLOps best practices.

Coached and mentored over 550 people, recording over 90% average success yearly, and hosted 63 workshops across 35 countries.

Coached and mentored 500+ learners in AI/ML and data science, conducted undergraduate research on renewable-energy integration, and hosted 63 workshops across 30 countries.

Conducting and mentoring young enthusiasts aged 12-19 about innovative ideas in the Earth prize competition.

Guided 18+ AI projects end-to-end as ML Engineer and Product Owner, facilitated workshops, and led national-scale AI projects including renewable-energy optimization.

Co-founded and scaled the company to 25 employees and 10 clients, architected 10 production AI/IoT solutions, and launched the 'AI for All' initiative.

Prepared academic materials and organized tutorials for colleagues and other students at diverse levels.

Researched conscious-AI literature to enhance compassionate behaviors in the Sophia humanoid robot and designed ethical-AI algorithms to reduce biased outputs.

Built sentiment-analysis pipelines in Python, NumPy, Pandas, and Dash, processing 10,000+ records during a project-based internship.

Solved 50+ complex mathematics, physics, and machine-learning problems for international university clients and tutored 20+ STEM students.

Pursuing an MSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, expected to complete in 2027.

Completed a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Information Engineering from 2019 to 2024.