CAREER SUMMARY
- From February 2010 till present – Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade), Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
- From February 2010 to August 2013- Executive Director of Sri Lanka Technology Incubator (Pvt.) Ltd (SLTI).
Rohan holds an Honors degree in Physical Science from the University of Kelaniya (1994) a Master’s degree in Information Science from the Graduate School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka Japan (2000), a Doctor of Engineering (Ph.D.) in Information Science from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan (2006) and a Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA) in Management of Technology, Graduate School of Economics, Department of Business and Technology Management, Kyushu University, Japan(2009). During his Masters and Ph.D periods he was awarded a scholarship from Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Monbukagakusho, 1999-2000) and Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Scholarship (2001-2004) in order to carry out his higher studies in Japan.
Rohan is a generalist with MSC, Ph.D. and MBA, having exposed to the fields of ICT and Management of Technology (MOT). Currently he is a senior lecturer (Higher Grade) in the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), Malabe, Sri Lanka.
He joined SLIIT in 2010 and held positions as the Executive Director of Sri Lanka Technology Incubator (Pvt.) Ltd (SLTI) from 2010 to 2013. Currently he is associating with government organizations, Provincial Councils, Ministries and private sector corporations as a consultant and a member of Advisory Board in the field of Information Technology, Management of Technology, System implementations, and Business Process Re-Engineering. He possesses a high level of conceptual ability and gained technology and business acumen from many industries ranging specially from Universities, Software industries to both national and international projects.
He is a member of Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) and IEEE in the Sri Lankan chapter. His research interests are Business Intelligence, Big Data and predictive data analytics, Medical Informatics and Distributed Database Management Systems. Annually he is supervising several SLIIT students’ treasury and business category projects which are going to be presented at the contest in the NBQSA. His project received the Gold Medal from the NBQSA 2014 Competition and the same project received the Merit Award from APICTA 2014 competition held in Indonesia in November, 2014. In 2015 his project won the Silver medal MBQSA 2015 from the Treasury Business category. He always upgrades the knowledge with cutting edge technologies. Hence, he has completed the Redhat Linux Certificated System Administrator and Certificated System Engineer certification course modules. Further, he is reading for the Redhat Enterprise Virtualization Administration, Redhat Storage Server Administration and Redhat Server Hardening course modules.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- MBA in MOT(March,2009): Master of Business Administration Degree (MBA) in Management of Technology, Graduate School of Economics, Department of Business and Technology Management, Kyushu University, Japan
Thesis title: Total Traceability System: Outlook on a Novel System for Enhancing Quality, Productivity and customer reliability in Food Supply Chains. - Ph.D (March-2006): Doctor of Engineering Degree in Information Science from the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan.
Thesis Title: “A Framework of Adaptable Access Strategies for Enhancing Access Performance and QoD in Open Distributed Environments”. - M.Sc. (March-2000): Master of Science Degree in Information Science from the Department of Informatics, Graduate School of Electrical and Electronic, Kyushu University, Japan.
Thesis Title: “On Parallel Algorithms for Association Mining”. - B. Sc. (July-1994): Bachelor of Science Degree in Physical Science (with Second class Upper Division honours), from Faculty of Science University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- Data Mining
- Machine Learning Algorithms
- Big Data Analytic
- Smart city concepts in IOT environment
Memberships
- Member, IEEE since 2011
- Member, Computers Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL)
MY PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications
- Rohan Samarasinghe, Gayathma Perera, Nadeesha Perera, Pathum Senaratna and Lakshan Samarasingha "People Clues: Business Intelligence Tool for Team Dynamics"
- • N.R.B Wijayagunawardhane, S.D Jinasena, C.B Sandaruwan, W.A.N.S Dharmapriya, Rohan Samarasinghe, "SmartV: Intelligent Vigilance Monitoring based on Sensor Fusion and Driving Dynamics. 8th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems "
- Rohan Samarasinghe, Duminda Nishantha, and Noriyuki Shutto " Total Traceability System: A Sustainable Approach for Food Traceability in SMEs"
- Rohan Samarasinghe, Duminda Nishantha, Noriyuki Shutto and manjula Wanniarachige "Total Traceability System: A Novel System by combination of Horizontal and Vertical traceability systems of Food Supply Chains"
- Rohan Samarasinghe, D.Nishantha, Yoshihiro YasuTake, Lanka Rodrigo, and Takaichi Yoshida "Adaptive Multimedia Transcoding for WWW Content Delivery"
- Rodrigo Lanka, Kentaro Oda, D. Nishantha, Rohan Samarasinghe, Yoshihiro Yasutake, and Takaichi Yoshida "Adaptable Replication Spectrum for Open Distributed Environments"
- Rohan Samarasinghe,Yoshihiro Yasutake and Yoshida Takaichi "Optimizing the Access Performance and Data Freshness of Distributed Cache Objects Considering User Access Pattern"
- Rohan Samarasinghe,Yoshihiro Yasutake, Takashi kato and Yoshida Takaichi "Adaptable Access Strategies Provides a Higher Usefulness of the Objects in an Open distributed Environment"
