Kumara Kahatapitiya

Researcher, GenAI, Meta
Joined
February 2020

Names

Kumara Kahatapitiya (Preferred)

Emails

****@cs.stonybrook.edu (Confirmed)
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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
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****@qti.qualcomm.com (Confirmed)
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****@google.com
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****@uom.lk
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****@meta.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher
GenAI, Meta (meta.com)
2025 – Present
PhD student
Computer Science, Stony Brook University (stonybrook.edu)
2019 – 2025
Intern
GenAI, Meta (meta.com)
2024 – 2024
Intern
Qualcomm AI Research, Qualcomm Inc (qti.qualcomm.com)
2023 – 2023
Student Researcher
Robotics at Google, Google DeepMind (google.com)
2022 – 2023
Intern
Wormpex AI Research (wormpexai.com)
2021 – 2021
Research Assitant
ENTC, University of Moratuwa (uom.lk)
2018 – 2019
Undergrad student
ENTC, University of Moratuwa (uom.lk)
2014 – 2018
Intern
CSIRO (data61.csiro.au)
2016 – 2016

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor
Michael Ryoo
2019 – 2024
Undergrad Advisor
Ranga Rodrigo
2014 – 2019

Expertise

Computer Vision
Present
Machine Learning
Present
Video Understanding
Present
Video Editing
Present
Vision+Langauge
Present
Diffusion models
Present
Large-language models
Present

Publications

View all 22 publications

Co-Authors

View all 58 co-authors