CAREER SUMMARY
Koliya Pulasinghe is a Professor in Information Technology, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri Lanka.
He joined SLIIT in 2003 as a Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade), and held numerous positions including Head, Department of Information Technology, Postgraduate Course Coordinator, Dean/Academic Affairs, Dean/Postgraduate Studies & Research. He was the first Chairman of the Curriculum and Academic Quality Committee and chaired the Internal Quality Assurance Unit. He served SLIIT as a member of the Board of Directors from 2007 to 2017.
He edited the IT Subject benchmark document to be used in Quality Assurance and Accreditation Council (QAAC) of the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka, served as a member of the National Committee on Electronics and IT, National Science Foundation (NSF), and worked as a member of the NSF Working Committee on Technology.
His research interests are electronic patient information management systems, Hidden Markov Model based prediction algorithms, Computational Linguistics and Fuzzy Neural Network based control systems.
- Feb. 2015 to date – Professor, Department of Information Technology, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri lanka.
- Oct. 2003 to Feb. 2015 – Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade), Department of Information Technology, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri lanka.
- 1997 to 2000 – Systems Engineer, Computing Services Centre, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BSc Eng. (Hons) in Computer Systems & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 1996
- Ph.D. in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Saga University, Japan, 2003
Teaching & Supervision activities
- test activity - Software Engineer , 2003 – 2016
MEDIA
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- Machine Learning, Health Informatics, and Computer Linguistics
Memberships
- Member – Computer Society of Sri Lanka.
- Member – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Research Clusters
Centre of Excellence for AI (CEAI)
A multidisciplinary initiative advancing AI research in machine learning, NLP, and big data analytics to solve complex global challenges and drive intelligent decision-making.
PUBLICATIONS
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Possibilities for the use of mobile phones and more-than-voice services to improve the economic status of women-headed households at the BOP
H. de Silva, K. Pulasinghe, and L. Panditha, (IDRC Research Results, The International Development Research Centre)
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Achieving Quality Healthcare through Knowledge Management Initiatives in Health Institutions in Rural and Remote Areas in Sri Lanka
Amararachchi.J.L, Perera H.S.C. and Pulasinghe K, (First National Conference on Technology & Management( NCTM)-Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka, vol 1, pp- 13-17)
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Automated question answering for customer helpdesk applications
L. Samarakoon, S. Kumarawadu, and K. Pulasinghe, (Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), 2011 6th IEEE International Conference on. IEEE)
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Syntactic Approach to Predict Membrane Spanning Regions of Transmembrane Proteins
K. Pulasinghe, and J. Rajapakse, (Rothlauf F. et al. (Eds.), EvoWorkshops2005, LNCS 3449, pp. 95 – 104)
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Training of Fuzzy-Neural Network for Voice-Controlled Robot Systems by a Particle Swarm Optimization
K. Watanabe, A. Chatterjee, K. Pulasinghe, J. Sang-Ho, K. Izumi and K. Kiguchi, (Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS 2003), pp. 1115--1120)
FUNDED RESEARCH
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