Thushan is a seasoned ML practitioner with 4+ years of experience in the industry. Currently he is a senior machine learning engineer at Canva; an Australian startup that founded the online visual design software, Canva, serving millions of customers. His efforts are particularly concentrated in the search and recommendations group working on both visual and textual content. Prior to Canva, Thushan was a senior data scientist at QBE Insurance; an Australian Insurance company. Thushan was developing ML solutions for use-cases related to insurance claims. He also led efforts in developing a Speech2Text pipeline there. He obtained his PhD specializing in machine learning from the University of Sydney in 2018.
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