DrRajitha Athukorala

Rajitha Athukorala is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Precision Agriculture, Hydrology and Geo Information Sciences Laboratory (PAHGISL) He received his PhD through the ARC Center for Data Analytics for Resources and Environment (DARE) at the University of Sydney. His research focus is on interpretable probabilistic machine learning methods in hydrology.

Previously, he has worked as a Research Associate at Geoinformatics Center (GIC), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand focusing on remotes sensing and GIS applications for real world problems.

Rajitha has past involvements in projects related to climate projection, modelling, and downscaling, multi hazard risk assessment, and mapping with drones in several countries of central and southeast Asia.

He has also involved in several capacity building programs as a technical lead in remote sensing and GIS applications in agriculture, disaster risk management, and drone image processing for participants from India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Thailand, Laos, and Tajikistan.