Danula Hettiachchi

Lecturer, RMIT University, Australia.

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Building 14

124 La Trobe Street

Melbourne, Victoria 3000

I am a Lecturer (i.e., Assistant Professor) at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University and a researcher interested in Crowdsourcing, Social Computing, Responsible AI and Human-Computer Interaction.

I am an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), a cross-disciplinary, national research centre in Australia, where I previously worked as a Research Fellow.

I completed my PhD on data quality in crowdsourcing at the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, where I was part of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group. During my PhD, I worked as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (AWS), a Causal Academic at the School of Computing and Information Systems, and the Manager of User Experience Lab, where I supported a wide range of HCI research projects. I have previously worked as a Full-Stack Software Engineer, primarily focused on data engineering and analytics.

Find my up-to-date CV here.

Watch a 3-minute summary of my latest research here.

Feb 12, 2025 :bulb: Attended The 4th Strategic Workshop on Information Retrieval in Lorne (SWIRL), which brings together top researchers in the field of Information Retrieval to discuss the latest research trends and challenges.
Dec 01, 2024 :mag_right: Great to be at OzCHI 2024 in Brisbane, co-organising the Unmaking AI: Engaging Critically and Creatively with Generative AI Workshop.
Sep 04, 2024 :newspaper: Check our new Conversation news article on e-scooter ban in Melbourne, written based on research led by Hiruni Kegalle.
Sep 04, 2024 :page_facing_up: Invited talk on “Measuring Bias in Human Interactions” at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC), Saarland University, Germany. Thanks to Prof. Ingmar Weber and DAAD for their support.
Dec 15, 2023 :trophy: Best Presentation Award at NTCIR 17 for “RMIT_IR at the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task” by Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal et al.