Ravindu Tharanga Perera

Ravindu Tharanga Perera

Research Assistant

  • Human-AI Empowerment Lab, Clemson University
  • In the lab since Fall 2022
Publications
4
First-authored
3
Projects
1
Lab co-authors
8
Venues
2

About

Ravindu Tharanga Perera was a research assistant in the HAIE Lab, which Ravindu first joined as a volunteer researcher in 2022 before becoming a graduate research assistant in 2023. Ravindu led the lab's work on goal-oriented AI assistants for the workplace (Wellbot, MexIHC 2024), assessed the task-management capabilities of LLM-powered agents, and built VirtuaScreens, an AI-enhanced multi-screen extended-reality workspace, presenting two demos at ACM CHIWORK 2024 in Newcastle, UK. Ravindu also designed and maintained the lab's website, mentored undergraduate researchers, and fine-tuned language models for thematic analysis of AI-focused communities of practice.

Ravindu earned an M.S. in Computer Science, with a concentration in data science and machine learning, from Clemson University in 2025 and a B.S. in Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, Sri Lanka. Ravindu has worked as a software engineer in Colombo and at the Data Visualization Lab of Clemson University Libraries, where Ravindu built an LLM chatbot for the library website and taught data visualization workshops.

Highlights

  • First author of four 2024 papers and demos (MexIHC 2024, ACM CHIWORK 2024)
  • Designed and maintained the HAIE Lab website (2023-2024)

Publications 4

ACM CHIWORK 2024 Demo

Assessing the Task Management Capabilities of LLM-Powered Agents

Ravindu Tharanga Perera, Adithya Ravi, Carlos Toxtli-Hernández

DOI Website
MexIHC 2024

AI Assistants in the Workplace: Goal-Oriented Recommendations Using LLM

Ravindu Tharanga Perera, Claire Gendron, Cecilia Delgado Solorzano, Alberto Campos Hernández, Victor Rios Muñoz, Matthew Rogers, Carlos Toxtli-Hernández

DOI
ACM CHIWORK 2024 Demo

SmartMonitor: Edge-Based Activity Monitoring from Visual Input

Wangfan Li, Ravindu Tharanga Perera, Claire Gendron, Cecilia Delgado Solorzano, Carlos Toxtli-Hernández

DOI Website Code
ACM CHIWORK 2024 Demo

Exploring AI-Enhanced Multi-Screen Interaction in Extended Reality Workspaces

Ravindu Tharanga Perera, Carlos Toxtli-Hernández

DOI Website Code

In the news

  • Two papers at MexIHC 2024: the Wellbot workplace assistant and LLM-powered student query support (LibRef).
  • Four lab demos at ACM CHIWORK 2024 in Newcastle, UK: SmartMonitor, VirtuaScreens, LLM task-management agents and sandboxed human oversight. Dr. Toxtli serves as Web Chair.