Tracks

Research Cluster

AI Foundations & Human Centered Analytics

Dr. Lakmini Abeywardhana • Mr. Jeewaka Perera

  • Human-in-the-loop ML & Explainable AI
  • Fairness, Ethics & Responsible AI
  • Causal inference & robust ML
  • Recommender systems & personalization
  • Data visualization & visual analytics
  • Privacy-preserving analytics
  • Dataset shift & benchmarking
Research Cluster

Vision, Speech & Language (Multimodal AI)

Prof. Nathali Silva • Ms. Sanjeewi Chandrasiri

  • Computer vision (detection, segmentation, tracking)
  • Medical image analysis & remote sensing
  • Speech recognition, synthesis & speaker technologies
  • NLP: LLMs, MT, QA, dialogue systems
  • Lowresource & multilingual AI
  • Multimodal learning (visionlanguage, audiovisual)
  • Biometrics, gesture/action recognition
  • Domainspecific perception (education, industry, public safety)
Research Cluster

CyberPhysical Systems, IoT & Autonomous Robotics

Prof. Samantha Rajapaksha • Dr. Nethmini

  • Smart sensing, embedded/realtime intelligence
  • Industrial IoT, Industry 4.0/5.0
  • Autonomous navigation, control & planning
  • Humanrobot interaction; swarm robotics
  • Edge–cloud integration for CPS
  • Digital twins & simulation for CPS
  • Robotics for hazardous/agri/healthcare environments
  • CPS safety, reliability & security
Research Cluster

Networking, Edge/Cloud & Distributed Systems

Prof. Anuradha Jayakody • Ms. Shashika Lokuliyana (Dr. Nimal)

  • 5G/6G, SDN/NFV & network slicing
  • Edge, fog & cloud orchestration; serverless
  • High-performance & content-centric networking
  • Routing, QoS, congestion & traffic engineering
  • Distributed systems & decentralized protocols (P2P, DLT)
  • Observability, telemetry & network AI/ML
  • Energy-aware networking; green networking
  • Resilience, reliability & network security
Research Cluster

Cybersecurity, Privacy & Digital Forensics

Dr. Kaushalya Dissanayake • Mr. Kavinga Abeywardena

  • Network, IoT/OT & cloud security
  • Cryptographic protocols & applications
  • Threat intelligence, malware & intrusion detection
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies & PPML
  • Identity, access & zero trust
  • Security for CPS/robotics
  • Incident response & digital forensics
  • Governance, risk, compliance & AI security
Research Cluster

Immersive Technologies & Creative Computing

Dr. Junius Anjana • Mr. Jagath Wickramarathne

  • VR/AR/MR/XR platforms & interaction
  • Haptics, multisensory UX & perception in XR
  • Metaverse tech, standards & interoperability
  • Immersive training, simulation & digital twins in XR
  • 3D content creation, rendering & spatial computing
  • Creative AI (generative media, computational art)
  • Accessibility & ethics in immersive experiences
  • Evaluation methods for presence, immersion & safety
Research Cluster

Health & Medical Informatics

Prof. Koliya Pulasinghe • Dr. Namalie Walgampayae

  • EHR interoperability (HL7/FHIR) & clinical data engineering
  • Telehealth & remote patient monitoring
  • Clinical decision support & predictive healthcare
  • Medical image informatics & radiomics
  • mHealth & digital therapeutics; wearables
  • Epidemiological modeling & outbreak analytics
  • Health equity, bias & privacy in clinical AI
  • Regulatory, safety & validation of medical AI
Research Cluster

Bioinformatics & Brain-Inspired Computing

Dr. Prasanna Sumathipala • Dr. Mahima Weerasinghe

  • Genomics, proteomics & biological sequence modeling
  • Drug discovery informatics & systems biology
  • Computational neuroscience & connectomics
  • Brain–computer interfaces (BCI)
  • Neuromorphic algorithms & spiking networks
  • Bio-inspired optimization & evolutionary computation
  • Cognitive computing architectures
  • Data standards & reproducibility in bioAI
Research Cluster

Software & Systems Engineering, MLOps & DevOps

Prof. Dilshan De Silva • Ms. Uthpala Samarakoon

  • Requirements, architecture & model-driven engineering
  • Continuous integration/delivery; infrastructure as code
  • MLOps pipelines & data/feature governance
  • Testing, verification & reliability engineering
  • Microservices, cloud-native patterns & performance
  • Technical debt, maintainability & observability
  • Autonomous/self-adaptive software systems
  • Empirical SE & developer experience (DevEx)
Research Cluster

Sustainable Smart Systems: Agriculture, Cities & Climate

Dr. Kapila Dissanayake • Dr. Madhawa

  • Precision agriculture & smart irrigation
  • Drones/sensing for crop & soil analytics; livestock health
  • Urban IoT, mobility & intelligent transport
  • Energy optimization, smart grids & renewables integration
  • Climate modeling, risk & disaster informatics
  • Environmental monitoring & GIS/spatial analytics
  • Green building tech & waste management automation
  • Sociotechnical resilience & policy tooling
Research Cluster

Advanced & Next-Generation Computing Architectures

Prof. Sanvitha Kasthuriarachchi • Ms. Shyamalee

  • HPC systems & performance engineering
  • GPU/FPGA/ASIC accelerators for AI/ML
  • Quantum computing algorithms, software & control
  • Neuromorphic/photonic computing & emerging memories
  • Parallel/distributed programming models
  • Edge AI accelerators & low-power systems
  • Reliability, security & sustainability of hardware
  • Co-design: algorithms ↔ architectures
Research Cluster

Digital Economy, FinTech & Enterprise Intelligence

Prof. Dasuni Nawinna • Ms. Narmada Gamage

  • Digital payments, wallets & embedded finance
  • Blockchain/DeFi: platforms, security & regulation
  • Risk modeling, fraud detection & compliance (RegTech)
  • Algorithmic trading & market microstructure analytics
  • Customer analytics, churn & personalization
  • Data warehousing, BI & decision support
  • E-commerce platforms & pricing/revenue optimization
  • Tech-driven business models & operations analytics