Biography

Dr. Shalinda received his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Information Technology from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2009. In 2013 he received the National University of Singapore (NUS) research scholarship and he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Information Systems and Analytics from School of Computing, NUS in 2017. His primary research interest lies within the field of data science especially the design of data-driven applications. Currently he works with the online advertising industry where he is researching and developing new solutions to optimize the real-time bidding process in online advertising. His research has been published in INFORMS Journal of Computing. Also he has presented his research at leading academic conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the Workshop on Information Technology and Systems (WITS) and the Pacific-Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS). He was awarded the best paper award at WITS 2016.

Ph.D. Dissertation

Revenue Optimization in Real-Time Bidding Based Advertising for Mobile Devices