Vishaka Basnayake is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Empirical Software Engineering in Software, Systems and Services Unit, University of Oulu, Finland which she joined in March 2024. Previously, she worked as a Lecturer at Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC), Sri Lanka, from September 2022 to February 2024. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Department of Distributed digital algorithms, mobile networks, distributed systems, verification and validation of software and embedded devices, Universite Bourgogne Franche Comte (UBFC), France, in June 2023, where she worked in from 2020 to 2021. She continued her Ph.D. studies from 2022 to 2023 while teaching in SLTC. Prior to that, she completed her M.Sc. in Wireless Communications Engineering at the Center for Wireless Communications Research, University of Oulu, Finland, in 2019, and her B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Faculty of Engineering of University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2017. Her research interests include multi-agent based modelling, automotive system and software architecture design, communication protocol and localization algorithm design for wireless adhoc networks, federated learning for multi-access edge computing , optimization techniques for automotive systems.