Applied AI Research

Academic papers and applied research studies targeting data sovereignty, privacy-preserving LLMs, and behavioral dynamics in emerging markets.

2025 – 2026Knovik Private Limited

EdgeTal

Lead Researcher & Corresponding Author

"On-Device Agentic RAG for Talent Discovery"

On-device agentic RAG system for privacy-preserving talent discovery — full retrieval and inference pipeline at the edge, zero candidate data transmitted to the cloud. Manuscrip...

Candidate data transmitted to cloud servicesZero
Full agentic RAG pipeline — retrieval, reasoning, generation — at the edgeOn-Device
Average end-to-end query latency on local hardware< 3.5s
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2025London Metropolitan University

Gen Z Job Commitment Study

Principal Researcher

"Determinants of Job Commitment in IT Organisations in Sri Lanka"

Quantitative study of 386 Gen Z employees across WSO2, IFS R&D, Knovik, and Prime One Global, testing four determinants of job commitment via SPSS correlation and chi-square ana...

Gen Z respondents across leading Sri Lankan IT firms386
Determinants tested via correlation & chi-square analysis4
Strongest commitment driver: Employer Social Responsibilityr = 0.52
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2024 – 2025Knovik Private Limited — Applied Research

Deep Learning-Based EV Adoption Forecasting

Research Lead — Knovik Private Limited

"Market Prediction for Electric Vehicle Adoption Among Sri Lankan Generation Z"

Hybrid deep learning framework (DNN + discrete choice / LSTM) predicting EV adoption among Sri Lankan Gen Z, trained on a 643-respondent primary survey and validated on F1-Score...

Gen Z survey respondents (primary data)643
DNN + discrete choice / LSTM forecasting architectureHybrid DL
Validated on F1-Score and ROC-AUCF1 / AUC
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