Senior Professor

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

  • Conference Proceedings

    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)

  • Conference Proceedings 2012

    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)

  • Conference Proceedings 2011

    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)

  • Conference Proceedings

    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)

  • Conference Proceedings 2003

    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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