DANULA HETTIACHCHI
Email
danula.hettiachchi@rmit.edu.au
Website
www.danulahettiachchi.com
Dr Danula Hettiachchi is an Associate Investigator at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S).
Danula is a Lecturer at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University and previously a Research Fellow at ADM+S. His key research interests are crowdsourcing, social computing, responsible AI, and human-computer interaction. Danula researches user interactions with automated decision-making systems and explores how biases manifest, influencing future system decisions and user perceptions. He obtained his PhD from the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and his thesis examined data quality in crowdsourcing.
Danula has published his research in flagship venues of human-computer interaction (CHI), social computing (CSCW), and crowdsourcing (HCOMP). He has received several grants, including the DAAD AInet Fellowship in Human-Centred AI, an Early Career Research Grant from ADM+S, the Google Travel Scholarship and the Melbourne Research Scholarship.
He has over seven years of teaching experience as a lecturer and tutor at three universities in Australia and Sri Lanka. Danula actively collaborates and engages with the international research community and has served in numerous conference organising and program committees. He is an Associate Chair at CHI 2022, 2023 and 2024 and an organiser at HCOMP 2024, CHI 2019. During his PhD, he worked as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon, USA and as the Manager of the User Experience Lab at the University of Melbourne. He also has prior industry experience in data and software engineering.
