Supervisor List
Department of Applied Computing

Dr. (Mrs.) Thilini Rupasinghe
PhD (Iowa, USA), MSc (Iowa, USA), BSc (Special) Hons (Colombo, SriLanka)thilinir@kln.ac.lk
- Chemistry for Technology
- Nanoscience and Technology
- Green Technology

- Technology Foresight
- Technology Transfer
- Competitiveness
- Operations/Technology Strategy

Dr. Laalitha Liyanage
PhD (Mississippi, USA), MSc (Mississippi, USA), BSc (Special) Hons (Peradeniya, SriLanka)laalitha@kln.ac.lk
- Computational manufacturing and design
- Integrated computational materials engineering
- High-throughput materials discovery
- Electronic structure methods and interatomic potential development

Dr. Pradeep Samarasekara
PhD (Houston, USA), BSc (Special) Hons (Colombo, SriLanka)pradeeps@kln.ac.lk
- Applied coordination chemistry for the selective extraction of precious and rare metals from urban mines (e-waste recycling)
- Sustainable chemistry for affordable and clean energy technologies.
- Low-dimensional Solid-state materials for electronic, magnetic, and superconducting applications.
- Advanced materials (electronic, photonic and magnetic materials)
- Waste management and recycling
- Battery materials and energy storage technologies

Dr. Asanka Pallewatta
PhD (Risø DTU, Denmark), MEng (Gifu, Japan), BEng (Gifu, Japan), Dip.in Fashion Design (SriLanka)asanka@kln.ac.lk
- Nanoengineering – Functional Thin Films
- Nanomaterial Synthesis
- Sustainable Energy Applications
- Thin film based functional nanomaterials
- Sol-gel synthesis
- Sustainable energy related innovative applications

Dr. Kasun Fernando
PhD (UofL,USA) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.Sc in physics (UofL, USA), B.Sc (Sp) in physics (USJP,SL)kasunf@kln.ac.lk
- Novel device applications of Graphene
- Rare Earth Metals, Hybrid Perovskites
- Sustainable Technologies for Sustainability
Department of Computer Systems Engineering

Senior Professor N G J Dias
PhD (Wales, UK), MSc (Belfast, UK), B.Sc. (Special) (Colombo, SriLanka), MBCS, MIEEE.ngjdias@kln.ac.lk
Research Areas
- Natural Language Processing and Recognition
- Text mining
- Computational Mathematics
- Networking and Security
- Image processing and Computer Vision

Dr. Hesiri Dhammika Weerasinghe
PhD (Oakland, USA), MSc (Oakland, USA), BSc (Special) (Kelaniya, Sri Lanka)hesiri@kln.ac.lk
- Network Security
- VANET/MANET Security
- Cloud/Data Centre Security
- Information Privacy
- Cyber security
- privacy/anonymity in communication
- Cryptocurrency Blockchains

Dr. Devindri Perera
PhD in Mathematical Statistics (Sydney, Australia), BSc (Kelaniya, Sri Lanka)devindrip@kln.ac.lk
- Applied statistics
- Saddlepoint approximations

- Internet of Things
- Cyber Physical systems
- Body sensor networks
- Fog computing
- Cloud computing
Department of Software Engineering

Dr. S. R. Liyanage
PhD (NUS, Singapore),MPhil (Peradeniya, SriLanka), BSc (Special) (Kelaniya, SriLanka), MIEEE
sidath@kln.ac.lk
Research Areas
- Data Science
- Brain Computer Interfacing
- Machine Learning

Dr. (Mrs.) M. C. Wijegunasekara
PhD (Wales, UK), MSc (Wales, UK), BSc (Special) (Kelaniya, SriLanka)carmel@kln.ac.lk
- Data Mining Algorithms using Parallel Computing

Dr. Gamini Wijayarathna
DrEng (Electro-Communications, Japan), MEng (Electro-Communications, Japan), BSc (Kelaniya, SriLanka)gamini@kln.ac.lk
- Web-based Software Engineering
- E-Learning
- Executable Specification Languages
- Spatial-Temporal reasoning