Anupama Arukgoda

Anupama Arukgoda is a Research Associate specialising in Artificial Intelligence development, designing frameworks and conversational AI components that enable seamless user interaction with advanced models. Her work spans prototyping and deploying AI modules for production environments, applying prompt‑engineering strategies to enhance machine translation quality, tone, and comprehensibility. She also contributes to the advancement of graph‑based Retrieval‑Augmented Generation tools, improving the accuracy and reliability of AI‑generated responses. Through close collaboration with cross‑functional teams, she plays a key role in delivering high‑quality AI capabilities at pace to support research innovation and practical application.

She brings over four years of professional experience across software engineering and data science and holds a PhD in Computer Science from UNSW Canberra. Her expertise spans Natural Language Processing, Multi‑Agent Systems, and Evolutionary Algorithms, and she enjoys collaborating in teams, solving complex problems, and delivering practical outcomes. She applies her research and technical skills to create AI‑driven solutions that advance organisational capability and support impactful, evidence‑based innovation.