Dr. Kuruparan Shanmugalingam

Dr. Kuruparan Shanmugalingam

PhD(UNSW), MBA(Cardiff Met), BSc(Hons)Eng(UOM)

Dr. Kuruparan Shanmugalingam

Recent Updates

  • Mar 2025 — Started as Senior Data/AI Scientist at FutureSecure.AI.
  • Mar 2024 — Secured Australia’s prestigious AEA Ignite grant for AI research to commercialisation.
  • Jan 2025 — Research paper on Mining automation with deeplearning is accepted at IGARSS2025.
  • Jun 2024 — Began as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney.
  • Jun 2024 — Submitted PhD thesis (UNSW).
  • Oct 2023 — Presented paper on Multimodal & Multiplanar MRI at MLMI workshop (MICCAI), Vancouver.
  • Aug 2023 — Successfully completed final-year PhD review.
  • Apr 2023 — Presented paper on Urethra segmentation with Multiplanar MRI at ISBI, Cartagena.
  • Aug 2022 — Successfully completed second-year PhD review.
  • Jul 2022 — Presented paper on Domain generalisation for MRI segmentation at MIDL, Switzerland.
  • Aug 2021 — Successfully completed first-year PhD review.
  • Sept 2020 — Paper accepted to DICTA 2020.
  • Aug 2020 — Delivered talk on distribution clustering at MLDSN, Nepal.
  • Mar 2020 — Joined Singapore Management University as Research Engineer (Data Science).
  • Dec 2019 — Delivered Global AI Bootcamp session on Azure & Data Science at Microsoft Sri Lanka.
  • Dec 2019 — Presented paper on help-desk ticket automation with machine learning at DICTA 2019, Australia.
  • Nov 2019 — Presented paper on IoT enhancements for high-temperature semiconductor applications, Malaysia.
  • Nov 2019 — Won SLASSCOM AI Innovation Award (Best Internal Process AI Product: AutoPilot).

Profile

AI scientist and builder focused on NLP, time-series forecasting, computer vision, statistical learning, and deep learning—with a track record of translating research into production-grade products for finance and other regulated sectors.

Strengths: feature engineering, modelling, and turning data into actionable business insights.

Experience

  • Senior Data/AI Scientist — FutureSecure.AI (2025–present)
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow — UNSW Sydney (2024–2025)
  • Casual Academic & Graduate Teaching Assistant — UNSW Sydney
  • Data Scientist — NCS, Singapore
  • Research Engineer — Singapore Management University
  • Research Engineer — MillenniumIT (LSEG), Sri Lanka
  • Research Intern — MIT-SUTD International Design Centre, Singapore
  • Associate Research Software Engineer — SenzMate IoT Intelligence, Sri Lanka
  • Independent Consultant & Instructor — Various
  • Teacher/Lecturer — Sri Lanka

Education

  • PhD, Computer Science & Engineering — University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
  • MBA (Business Analytics) — Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK
  • BSc (Hons) Engineering, First Class, Electronics & Telecommunication — University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
  • Jaffna Hindu College, Sri Lanka
    • GCE O/L (2010): 9 A grades (incl. English Lit, ICT, Commerce), District Rank 4
    • GCE A/L (2013): Z-score 2.6668, District Rank 4, Island Rank 22