obtained his B.Sc. special degree in Computer Science (First Class Honors) from the University of Colombo (UOC) and the Doctor of Information Engineering from Hiroshima University in Japan. He is a professor in Computer Science in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and former director of the UCSC. He has a key research interest in areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, e-Learning and ICT for Education and Development. He was the author or co-author of more than 125 research publications during the last 20 years and his h-index is 13 according to Google scholar. He also received more than 20 national and international awards for his scholarly work in research. Those awards include the Professor Mohan Munasinghe Award for the outstanding Computer Science graduate in 1994 at the convocation of the UOC, the best paper award at IEEE International Conference of Visual Languages in 1999, the research excellence award by the UOC in 2004, 2006 and 2012, UNESCO award ICT for education in 2007, and the excellent paper award at the IEEE Ubi-Media conference in 2018. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and an academic advocate of ISACA. He was a chair of the IEEE Computer Society Chapter in Sri Lanka. He was the head of the Department of Information Systems Engineering, of UCSC and coordinator of the e-learning Centre of UCSC. He was also the coordinator of the National e-Learning Project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and was the principal investigator of many international projects funded by international agencies. At the same time, he has helped the UOC to establish international collaboration with many foreign universities and agencies. He is a visiting researcher at Stockholm University, Sweden and Shimane University, Japan.

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