Staff Profile

• Member of Board of Directors of LEARN, June 2021 – to date
• Member of Standing Committee on Computing, UGC, August 2021 – to date
• Chairman, IT Development Committee, University of Vavuniya, July 2021 – Nov 2022
• Head of the Department of Physical Science, July 2021 – to date
• Acting Head of the Department of Physical Science, 7 July 2021 – August 2021
• Ex-co Member, Vavuniya Campus Teachers Association, 2021
• Academic Representative of the Faculty of Applied Science, Research and Education subcommittee of the Center for Gender Equity and Equality, 2021 – 2022
• Senior Treasurer, ICTCS, Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, 2021 – 2022
• Student Counsellor, Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus, 2021 – 2022
• Convener, First Annual Research Session 2020, Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, 2020
• Chairman, Technical Evaluation Committee, Results Area 2, ELTA-ELSE-Faculty of Applied Science, 2021 – to date
• Chairman, Network Infrastructure Committee , Faculty of Applied Science, 2021 – 2022

• Lecturer (Probationary) (Dec 2012 – Mar 2020), Department of Physical Science, Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna
• Part-time Lecturer (August 2017 – December 2018), EFFREI-SIGETEL Program, CPUT, Cape Town, South Africa
• Assistant Lecturer (Jan 2012 – Dec 2012), Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna
• Demonstrator (Nov 2010 – May 2011), Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna

 Visiting Lecturer

• Visiting Lecturer (Jul 2020 – Oct 2020), Department of IT, Faculty of Technology, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka
• Visiting Lecturer (Jan 2015 – Aug 2016), Open University of Sri Lanka
• Visiting Lecturer (Apr 2015 – Aug 2015), Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education (SLIATE)
• Visiting Lecturer (Apr 2011 – Jun 2011), Trincomalee Campus, Eastern University, Sri Lanka.

Undergraduate Teaching

• Object Oriented Programming
• Operating Systems
• Network Basics
• Advanced Computer Networks
• Design and Analysis of Algorithms
• Server Management
• E-Commerce
• Ethics of IT
• Internet Computing
• Software Engineering
• Advanced Database Management Systems
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Fundamentals of Programming

Research Interests

• Telematics
• IoT
• Edge Computing
• Machine Learning
• Cloud Computing
• C-K theory

Session Chair

• Session Chair  – TRInCo-2022
• Session Chair -Session 01 (Ubiquitous Computing Technologies), ICST 2022
• Session Chair – RCAICT 2022
• Session Co-chair, FARS 2022
• Session Chair, Session 02, ICST 2021

Reviewer

• IET Intelligent Transport Systems
• Reviewer of IRCUWU 2022
• Reviewer – ASRC 2022
• Reviewer, ICST 2021
• Track Editor, FARS ,2021

Journals

1. Kirushanth, S. and Kabaso, B., 2020. Design and Development of Weigh-In-Motion Using Vehicular Telematics. Journal of Sensors, 2020.

Conferences

1. Kirushanth, Sivaramalingam, and Boniface Kabaso. “Designing a Cloud-native Weigh-In-Motion.” In 2019 Open Innovations (OI), pp. 25-29. IEEE, 2019.
2. Vanda, Xolani, Kirushanth Sivaramalingam, and Boniface Kabaso. “Infoshare: A Digital Governance Community Platform for Knowledge Sharing.” In ICICKM 2018 15th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning, p. 444. Academic Conferences and publishing limited, 2018.
3. Chowuraya, Tawanda, Sivaramalingam Kirushanth, and Boniface Kabaso. “Extracting Knowledge from Noise Information.” In ICICKM 2018 15th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management & Organisational Learning, p. 409. Academic Conferences and publishing limited, 2018.
4. Kirushnath, Sivaramalingam, and Boniface Kabaso. “Weigh-in-motion Using Machine Learning and Telematics.” In 2018 2nd International Conference on Telematics and Future Generation Networks (TAFGEN), pp. 115-120. IEEE, 2018.
5. Kirushanth, Sivaramalingam, and Boniface Kabaso. “Telematics and Road Safety.” In 2018 2nd International Conference on Telematics and Future Generation Networks (TAFGEN), pp. 103-108. IEEE, 2018.
6. Kirushanth, S., and Ketheesan, T. “Unexpected Human Activity Recognition on Smartphone using Accelerometer Data”, Proceedings of the Peradeniya University International Research Sessions, Sri Lanka, Vol.19, 5th & 6th November 2015, p269, 2015.
7. Muhammad Rifthy, K., Kirushanth, S., Arthika, S., Nishanthy, S., and Kanaganathan, S. “Developing a Decision Support System to manage Solid wastes of Local Authority”, Annual Science Research Session (ASRS) – 2012, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, p13, 2012.

Presentations

• Resource Person for the Workshop on “Research Methodology” to the Final Year Students of the Faculty of Applied Science. Under AHEAD activity. April 2021
• Resource person for the workshop on “Web Development” to the Staff of Vavuniya Campus (2016)
• A poster presented on “Unexpected Human Activity Recognition on Smartphone using Accelerometer Data”, at iPURSE, University of Peradeniya, Srilanka (2015)
• Seminar on “Effective use of IT Tools for Impressive Presentation ”, at a workshop organized by IT centre Vavuniya Campus (2015)
• Presented a paper on “Developing a Decision Support System to manage Solid wastes of Local Authority”, in ASRS, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (2012)
• Presentation on “Peer-to-Peer overlay Networks”, at PGIS, University of Peradeniya (2012)
• Presentation on “Evolution of Web Technologies” as a partial fulfilment of the undergraduate program, at Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna (2010)
• Seminar on “Divisional Superintendent office Dedicated System (DSODS)”, at regular colloquium Vavuniya Campus, University of Jaffna (2008)

• UGC Postgraduate Grant for PhD (2017-2020)
• Faculty Bursary for Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Informatics and Design, CPUT, Cape Town, South Africa, 2017