Thushan Ganegedara

Thushan Ganegedara is a seasoned ML practitioner with more than four years of experience in the industry. Currently, he is a senior machine learning engineer at Canva, an Australian start-up that founded the online visual design software Canva, serving millions of customers. His efforts are particularly concentrated in the search and recommendations group. Prior to Canva, Thushan was a senior data scientist at QBE Insurance, an Australian insurance company, where he developed ML solutions for use cases related to insurance claims. He also led efforts to develop a Speech2Text pipeline. Thushan obtained his PhD with a specialization in machine learning from the University of Sydney.