Miss. Rusini Siyara

Dedicated Academic, Researcher, and highly motivated Teaching Assistant with a B.Sc. (Hons) in Cyber Security (Second Class Upper) and ongoing M.Sc. studies at SLIIT. Passionate about inspiring students, sharing knowledge, and contributing to university level teaching and research supervision. Recognized for research and innovation with national and institutional awards, including the SLTC Silver Medal for Research, reaching the NBQSA 2024 Finals, and winning awards in the Mobitel Entrepreneurship Program.

M.Sc. in Information Technology Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) | 2025 – 2027 (Completed 3 Semesters, Currently in Final Semester)

● Ongoing Research Project: A Computational Framework for Identifying Online Scam Vulnerability Among Generation Z Using Language and Social Behaviour Analysis

● Focus Areas: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Social Network Analysis (SNA), Agent-based Modeling

B.Sc. (Hons) in Cyber Security – Second Class Upper Division (GPA: 3.45) Sri Lanka Technology Campus (SLTC) | 2020 – 2024

● Final Year Research Project: Mobile App & Chatbot for Sexual Health Consultations & Knowledge Transfer

● Focus Areas: Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (GPT-3.5 Turbo, BERT), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).

• Silver Medal – Best Contribution to Research & Innovation (Jan 2025)

  Awarded by SLTC Research University for the project "Mobile App & Chatbot for Sexual Health Consultations".

• Finalist (Top 15 Teams) – National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA 2024)

  Recognized by NBQSA Sri Lanka for the project "Mobile App & Chatbot for Sexual Health Consultations".

• Second Runner-Up – Mobitel Entrepreneurship Program (Dec 2023)

  Awarded by SLT-Mobitel for developing the solution "Uberized Sales Agent".

• Top 10 Finalist – Athena Hack 2022 (Mar 2022)

  Recognized by Dialog Ideamart for developing the "Heladiwa Web Application".