Danula Hettiachchi
Lecturer, RMIT University, Australia.
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.
News
Sep 4, 2024 | Check our new Conversation news article on e-scooter ban in Melbourne, written based on research led by Hiruni Kegalle. |
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Dec 15, 2023 | Best Presentation Award at NTCIR 17 for “RMIT_IR at the NTCIR-17 FairWeb-1 Task” by Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal et al. |
Nov 13, 2023 | I started a new role as a Lecturer at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University. |
Nov 6, 2023 | Presented our work “How Crowd Worker Factors Influence Subjective Annotations: A Study of Tagging Misogynistic Hate Speech in Tweets” at HCOMP 2023 at Delft, Netherlands. |
Oct 23, 2023 | Presented our work “Designing and Evaluating Presentation Strategies for Fact-Checked Content” at CIKM 2023 at Birmingham, UK. |