Thasanka Kandage

Work

Jan – Dec 2026 (1 Year)Ottawa, ON

Software Developer Intern

Ericsson

AI Agents for CI and Build & Delivery
Radio Log Anomaly Detection
DevOps

Sep – Oct 2025 (2 Months)Calgary, AB

AI Engineer Intern

Customer Maps

AI Agents for Shopify E-Commerce

May – Aug 2025 (4 Months)Edmonton, AB

Research Assistant — Drone Path Planning

University of Alberta - Dr. Nima Shirzad-Ghaleroudkhani

Autonomous Drone Navigation for Structural Inspection Using 3D Gaussian Splatting and Optimization-based Path Planning

Hui Zuo, Thasanka Kandage, Hongyang Xu, Nima Shirzad-Ghaleroudkhani, Qipei Mei, José Fiestas and Luis A. Bedriñana · ISARC 2026 · Technical Paper #1467

Sep 2024 – Aug 2025 (1 Year Part-Time)Edmonton, AB

Research Assistant — Thermal Energy Storage

University of Alberta - Renewable Thermal Lab - Dr. Taha Manzoor

Optimizing the performance of liquid-based medium-temperature volumetric solar thermal receivers using genetic algorithms: a step towards digital twinning

T. Kandage, M. S. Shoaib, M. T. Manzoor · ASME ES 2025, AI for Energy Sustainability I · Technical Paper #155317 · Presented

Jan – Aug 2024 (8 Months)Lethbridge, AB

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Hub for Neuroengineering Solutions

CNNs, ViTs, and Active Learning for Image Analysis & Model Training

Sep 2024 – Aug 2025Edmonton, AB

Software Team Member

UAlberta RoboMaster

Computer Vision for Autonomous Aiming
Placed 9th/20 in 3v3 at RoboMaster NA 2025 in San Diego

Projects

UFC Fight Dataset and Predictor — (Check It Out)

Scraper for every fighter, event, and fight stat on the official UFC site. 1,500+ views, 300+ downloads on Kaggle

AI Sudoku Solver — (Try It Out)

Reads a Sudoku from an image and solves it