ICAC 2025 – Technical Program Committee

Affiliation: University of Peradeniya

Email: roshanr@eng.pdn.ac.lk

Dr. Roshan Ragel was appointed a senior lecturer in computer engineering at the University of Peradeniya in December 2007 and has been a professor since October 2017. He has been a Professional Member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society since 2005 and a Senior Member since 2014.

Prof. Ragel has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles on the Internet of Things, Wearable Computing, Bioinformatics, and Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He has won several best paper awards in conference papers, the most prolific Sri Lankan author award from Elsevier Research in 2017, and the Presidential award for scientific publication in Sri Lanka in 2018 and 2023.

He was also named the Top Scientist in Computer Science in Sri Lanka by AD Scientific Index 2021 and 2022 and Best Scientist in CS in the Country in 2023. With his present h-index of 23 (i10-index of 47), he is also recognised as a Tier 4* awardee under the Transparent Research Performance Scheme introduced by the University Grants Commission (UGC) Sri Lanka.

He was a visiting research scholar at the UNSW – Sydney many times, QUT – Brisbane, UIUC – Illinois and ANU – Canberra once each. Prof Roshan Ragel is an innovative educator, empowering researcher, and strategic and inspirational leader.

Affiliation: University of Kelaniya

Email: thilinim@kln.ac.lk

Thilini Mahanama pursued her PhD in mathematics with a specialization in statistics and a Masters degree in statistics from Texas Tech University in the United States. She obtained her Bachelor of Science [Special] degree in mathematics from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. After completing her doctoral degree, Thilini worked as a research intern at the United States Food and Drug Administration.

She works as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Management at the University of Kelaniya and serves as an affiliated researcher in the Mathematical Finance Program at Texas Tech University, USA.

She was awarded the Helen Devitt Jones Graduate Fellowship, Hilderbrand Scholarship, SIAM graduate scholarship, National Science Foundation Scholarship, and the Women in Statistics and Data Science Scholarship. She also won awards from the American Statistical Association and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Thilini received the SLASS Physical Science Award, Academic Excellence and Sports Excellence Awards, First Class Honours in Mathematics, and the Colours Insignia in Karate from the University of Kelaniya.