Prof. Saman Halgamuge is currently a Visiting Professor, SLIIT, and is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering, The University of Melbourne. He was appointed as a visiting professor of the University of Peradeniya, NIFS, and the University of Colombo.

He is listed as a top 2% most cited researcher for AI and Image Processing in the Stanford database. He is a distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (2024-26) and was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2018-21). He supervised 50 PhD students and 16 postdocs on AI and applications in Australia to completion.

Prof Saman Halgamuge, Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA and NASSL received the B.Sc. Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and the Dipl.-Ing and Ph.D. degrees in data engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. His research grants include Australian Research Council grants, Biomedical research grants from NHMRC, US DoD and various Foundations on Dementia and MND and industry including Google US and Bosch Germany.

His publications can be viewed at https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=9cafqywAAAAJ&pagesize=80&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate