Daksitha Senel Withanage Don

About

Hello!

I'm Daksitha Senel Withanage Don, a researcher specializing in generative AI technologies and their applications in interactive virtual agents. My work focuses on creating systems that understand and generate natural, human-like interactions to enhance digital communication.

I love both technology and creative expression, and I enjoy finding new ways to mix research with art. My aim is to develop virtual agents that are engaging and easy to interact with.

Presentations

News

November 2014: Presented "Towards Automated Annotation of Infant-Caregiver Engagement Phases with Multimodal Foundation Models" at ICMI (Costa Rica).
AI-Grid Spring School: Selected to join the AI-Grid Spring School, an initiative that strengthens the exchange and synergy among young AI talents and renowned AI experts.
Upcoming: Presenting the MeLaX demo paper at the IUI 25 Conference in Italy.

Research

Selected Publications

ReNeLib: Enhancing Real-Time Conversational Behavior Generation

Daksitha Withanage Don, Philipp Müller, Fabrizio Nunnari, Elisabeth André, Patrick Gebhard,

In ICMI 25th Conference

[paper DOI] [project page] [code + data] [video]

MeLaX: Conversations with Generative AI in Socially Interactive Agents

Daksitha Withanage Don, Thomas Kiderle, Silvan Mertes, Dominik Schiller, Hannes Ritschel, Elisabeth André

In IUI Companion 30th

[paper DOI] [project page] [code + data]

Hobbies

Gallery

Check out my hobbies: my photography on Gurushots and my dancing video on YouTube.

Gurushots Profile

Photography

YouTube Dance Video

Video