Research

• Most important advice ever! url
• A list of free or low cost tools for researchers / research students from Jaclyn Siegel url
• Wiki for Sri Lankan grad school applicants from SEF url.
• SL2College Facebook group
• Google research datasets
• Local language (Sinhala and Tamil) datastes
• https://aideadlin.es/ is a good tool to keep track of AI/ML/CV realted conference deadlines.
• Artificial Intelligence 101 Cheat Sheet from MontrealAI

Applying for internships

This section contains a non exhaustive list of suggestions for any Sri Lankan undergraduate applying for research internships.

• AIESEC global talent makes it easy for you to get Visa for any internship (as of 2019). Talk to the AIESEC branch in your university.
• IAESTE is similar to AIESEC but it is lesser known. Sri Lanka is listed in their website. While the Sri Lankan branch is situated in a particular institute, the branch is supposed to help any student. Contact the branch early and contact the global organization if they fail to help you.

Grad school application

• Generic advice on applying to grad school for CS from Mor Harchol-Balter. [PDF]
• CS graduate schools without an application fee. (List from Mahdi Cheraghchi).[list, description]

For University of Peradeniya Students

• Resources for practicing for algorithmic coding competitions [Solutions for past problems, Discussion group]
• Using high performance GPU servers
• Using github for documentation: [Presentation, Video]
• University of Peradeniya, Department of Computer Engineering: web, wiki, faq, web2, github.
• Web Consultation Unit -- for Peradeniya students and alumni if they want to build their own website.

Other

• Sinhala transliteration tool from UCSC (despite having many sophisticated tools, this one is awesome!) url
• Hackathons in Sri Lanka
• SMU Prima scholarship for Sri Lankan students to follow undergraduate degrees.
• Olympiads (Sri Lanka): Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics [official site], Astronomy, junior science, Informatics, Biology, Earth science.
• Reserving bunglows in wildlife reserves : https://dwc.lankagate.gov.lk/. (Reservations are very competitive, try on or beore the first monday of the month).
  Circuit Bangalows for government officials
• A list of tuition classes in Kandy