Dr Wathsala Karunarathne

• Appointments

  Date	Position	Institution name
  2022 - ongoing	Research Associate	Teletraffic Research Centre

• Education

  Date	Institution name	Country	Title
  2018 - 2023	The University of Melbourne	Australia	PhD
  2013 - 2016	University of Peradeniya	Sri Lanka	Bachelor of Science (Honours)

• Research Interests

  Optimisation Stochastic Analysis and Modelling

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2025	Bala, I., Karunarathne, W., & Mitchell, L. (2025). Optimizing Feature Selection by Enhancing Particle Swarm Optimization with Orthogonal Initialization and Crossover Operator. Computers Materials and Continua, 84(1), 727-744. DOI
  2025	Karunarathne, W., Shorten, D. P., & Roughan, M. (2025). An intelligent conversational agent for querying satellite manoeuvre detections: a case study. Discover Artificial Intelligence, 5(1). DOI
  2023	Karunarathne, W. B. M. W. (2023). Scheduling in queueing systems. Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society, 108(2), 349-350. DOI

• Conference Papers

  Year	Citation
  2024	Shorten, D. P., Karunarathne, W., & Roughan, M. (2024). How Is Starlink Manoeuvring? An Analysis of Patterns in the Manoeuvres of Starlink Satellites. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security (IoTBDS 2024) (pp. 174-184). Online: SCITEPRESS. DOI Scopus2
  2023	Wang, G., Costa, A., Karunarathne, W., Roughan, M., Miller, S., & Pitchford, W. (2023). A strategic planning model for the operation plan in lamb supply chains. In Proceedings of 25th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. (pp. 1003-1009). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. DOI Scopus2

• Preprint

  Year	Citation
  2025	Karunarathne, W., Shorten, D. P., & Roughan, M. (2025). An Intelligent Conversational Agent for Querying Satellite Manoeuvre Detections: a Case Study. DOI
  -	Karunarathne, W., Wang, J., & Koopman, K. (n.d.). Strategic timing of arrivals to a queueing system with scheduled customers Jiesen Wang. DOI

STATS 1005 Statistical Analysis and Modeling - Course Coordinator and Lecturer

MATHS 7097A  Master of Data Science Research Projects - Project Supervisor

MATHS7097 B  Master of Data Science Research Projects - Project Supervisor

• Memberships

  Date	Role	Membership	Country
  2018 - ongoing	Member	ACEMS	Australia

• Consulting/Advisories

  Date	Institution	Department	Organisation Type	Country
  2023 - ongoing	OPTIMA	-	-	Australia

• Position: Grant-Funded Researcher (A)
• Phone: 83138335
• Email: wathsala.karunarathne@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor Level Five
• Room: 5.20
• Org Unit: Teletraffic Research Centre