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 2003

    Control of Redundant Manipulators by Fuzzy Linguistic Commands

    K. Pulasinghe, K. Watanabe, K. Izumi, and K. Kiguchi, (Proc. of the 42nd SICE Annual Conference (SICE2003), pp. 2819--2824 )

  • Conference Proceedings 2002

    Acqusition of New Knowledge for Fuzzy Neural Netwroks Through Interaction with Human

    K. Pulasinghe, K. Watanabe, K. Izumi, and K. Kiguchi, (Proc. of Joint 1st International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS & ISIS 2002), 22Q2-1)

  • Conference Proceedings 2002

    Interactive Adaptation of Fuzzy Neural Networks in Voice-Controlled Systems

    K. Pulasinghe, K. Watanabe, K. Kiguchi and K. Izumi, (Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS2002), pp. 296--301)

  • Conference Proceedings 2002

    Voice Communication in Performing a Cooperative Task with a Robot

    K. Pulasinghe, K. Watanabe, K. Kiguchi, and K. Izumi, (Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS 02), pp. 123--132)

  • Conference Proceedings 2002

    Voice Controlled Modular Fuzzy Neural Controller with Enhanced User Autonomy

    K. Pulasinghe, K. Watanabe, K. Kiguchi, and K. Izumi, (Proc. of the 7th Int. Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB 7th '02), pp. 413--416)

FUNDED RESEARCH

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