Danula Hettiachchi

Dr Hettiachchi is a Lecturer at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S), where he was previously a Research Fellow. His key research interests are crowdsourcing, social computing, responsible AI, and human-computer interaction. Dr Hettiachchi 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.

Dr Hettiachchi 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. Dr Hettiachchi actively collaborates and engages with the international research community and has served in numerous conference organising and program committees.

Professional interests:
- Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).
- Associate Chair at CHI 2022-2025.
- Program Committee member for conferences, including The Web Conference, WSDM, SIGIR, CIKM, and HCOMP.
- Reviewer for esteemed journals, including PACMHCI(CSCW), IMWUT, IP&M, and TOIS.
- Organising Committee member for international conferences, including CHI 2019, HCOMP 2022, and MobileHCI 2024.

Industry experience:
Dr Hettiachchi has worked as a Full-Stack Software Engineer at Sysco Labs, primarily focused on data engineering and analytics. During his PhD, he worked as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (AWS), United States.