Staff Profile

• Coordinator, Faculty Quality Assurance Cell, Faculty of Applied Science, June 2022 – May 2025
• Member, University Research and Ethics Committee, University of Vavuniya, 2023 – 2024
• Senate nominee member, Selection Committee, Walk-in Interview
• Academic Counsellor, Department of Physical Science
• Member, Curriculum Development Committee, Department of Physical Science
• Senior Treasurer, Information Technology and Computing Society, Faculty of Applied Science,
  2023-2024
• Head of the Department of Physical Science, 01.05.2018 – 30.06.2021
• Covering-up Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, 14.09.2020 – 26.10.2021
• Acting Dean of the Faculty of Applied Science, 27.03.2019 – 16.06.2019
• Coordinator, Information Technology Centre, Vavuniya Campus, 2014-2017.
• Coordinator of the Skill Enhancement Course in information Technology for the Final Year Students of the Faculties of Arts and Management Studies & Commerce, Institutional Block Grant (IBG) of the IRQUE Project, University of Jaffna, August 2006 – February 2007.
• Coordinator, Committee to Activate Staff Students Interaction (CASSI), Colloquium, 2014-2016.
• Students Counselor, Faculty of Applied Science, 2013/14, 2014/15
• Chairman/Web_IT Committee and Information Technology Development Committee 2018 – to date
• Member, Jaffna Science Association, 2021 – to date
• Member, Young Scientist Forum, 2018 – to date
• Member, Standing Committee on Computing/UGC, 2018 – to date
• Member of the Senate of the University of Jaffna, June 2018 to date
• Member of the University Senate, Representative for Faculty of Applied Science, 2015-2018
• Chief Editor, Vavuniya Campus Newsletter, 2016
• Academic Career Guidance Advisor, Faculty of Applied Science, 2017/2018
• Academic Advisor, Department of Physical Science, 2018 to date.
• Academic Tutor to improve the academic activities, counseling services and staff-student relationship, Department of Physical Science, 2010/2011
• Member, University Research Committee, 2018-2019
• Member, Faculty Research Committee, Faculty of Applied Science, 2018
• Representative of Faculty of Applied Science, Internal Quality Assurance Unit, University of Jaffna, 2014-2016.
• Representative of Faculty of Applied Science to the Committee for improving English Language Proficiency to Develop Proposals under UDG/IRQUE, Vavuniya Campus, 2010
• Representative of Faculty of Applied Science to assist selecting books related to Computer Science/IT for Library of the Vavuniya Campus donated by Asia Foundation programme, June 2009
• Member, Curriculum Evaluation Committee, University of Jaffna, 2020
• Member, Curriculum Development Sub-Committee for the Department of Physical Science, 2010/2011, 2013-2015, 2017 – to date.
• Member, Internal Quality Assurance Cell, Faculty of Applied Science, 2014 – to date.
• Member, COLRIM Verification Process, University of Jaffna, 2014
• Member, Self-Evaluation Report for Institutional Review, Vavuniya Campus/University of Jaffna, 2018
• Chairperson, Program Review for Criteria 5: Teaching and Learning, Faculty of Applied Science, 2017 to date.
• Member, Board of Faculty of Applied Science, 2014 – to date.
• Member, Web Team, Representing Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus, 2007 – 2009
• Member, Web Committee, Faculty of Applied Science, 2018
• Member, Industry-Interaction Cell, Faculty of Applied Science, 2018
• Member, Action Committee for Vanni Career Fair 2017, Vavuniya Campus, 2017.
• Member, Committee for Vavuniya Campus International Research Conference, 2017.
• Member, Committee for Vavuniya Campus Annual Research Session, Vavuniya Campus, 2009
• Member, Sports Advisory Board, 2014/2015, 2015/2016.
• Co-Chairperson/Organizing Committee, SLUG-2016 Torch Parade, 2016
• Chairman, Board on Special Survey-2014, Vavuniya Campus, 2015
• Chairman, Annual Board of Survey, Vavuniya Campus 2007, 2014,
• President, Vavuniya Campus Teachers’ Association, 2015/2016
• Secretary, Vavuniya Campus Teachers’ Association, 2014/2015, 2013/2014
• Part time Coach, Table Tennis (Men and Women), Vavuniya Campus, 2014/2015.
• Part time Coach, Tennis Team, University of Jaffna, 2004 – 2005

Resource Person

• Moderator for the national level common aptitude test for the selection of candidates for the BSc in ICT degree programme at Rajarata University of Sri Lanka and Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, 2019 – 2021
• First and Second Examiner of the Aptitude Test Paper for the selection of ICT students held at Rajarata University, July 2014

• Workshop on Office Automation, SDC & CGU, Vavuniya Campus, 2014
• Workshop on E-Communication to the administrative staff, SDC & CGU, Vavuniya Campus, 2014

• Evaluator for evaluating the exhibits in the exhibition conducted by Vithatha Unit, District Secretariat, Vavuniya, December 2010.

• Workshop on Significance of Learning to be an Effective Academic – An Essence, Department of Physical Science, Vavuniya Campus, 2010

• Evaluator for evaluating the exhibits in the exhibition conducted by Zonal Education Office, Vavuniya South, May 2008.
• Teaching Information Technology for final year students in Arts, Management & Commerce under IRQUE project, 2005 – 2006.
• Teachers Training Programme in Information Communication Technology for school teachers, organized by the Ministry of Human Resource Development Education & Cultural Affairs under the World Bank funded General Education Project, December 2003 – July 2004
• Short term training programme in Information Technology for school teachers under the World Bank funded Teacher Education and Teacher Development (TETD) Project conducted by Faculty of Science, University of Jaffna, 2003

 Institutional Development

• Revised the proposal for the bifurcation of the Department of Physical Science to fulfill the
  partial compliance indicated by QAC/UGC incorporating the requirement analysis written based
  on the feedback given by the stakeholders.
• Developed an initial complete version of a stand-alone application model in MS Excel for
  reporting the workload calculation of each academic staff of the Faculty of Applied Science.
• Submission of Proposal for Requisition of Purchase Equipment for Computer Laboratory in Department of Physical Science
• Submission of Proposal for Construction and completion of first floor of the Physical Science building of the Faculty of Applied Science.
• Submission of Proposal for the Semi-Permanent Lecture Halls for the Faculty of Applied Science
• Submission of Constitution for Information Technology and Computing Society, Department of Physical Science, 2020.
• Served as a member of the Sub-Committee of Standing Committee on Computing UGC to prepare a checklist for evaluation of IT degree programmes to identify the gap between QAC/UGC evaluation and Standing Committee evaluation according to the IEEE/ACM guidelines IT2017, Sep 2020.
• Formation of Vavuniya Campus Cisco Network Academy, Agreement with Cisco NetAcad and the Vavuniya Campus, 2018
• Contact Person, Faculty of Applied Science, Organizational Data Collection for Science & Technology Management Information System (STMIS), National Science Foundation (NSF), Colombo, 2015
• Donation of Abstract Book May 2013 to the Library, University of Jaffna and the Library of Vavuniya Campus.
• Donation of a Laptop and a Printer to the Department of Physical Science under HETC Project
• Member, Observation Committee for Internet Facilities, Vavuniya Campus, 2017/2018.
• Member, Committee for Strategic Plan of the Vavuniya Campus, 2015, 2016/2017, 2018, 2020
• Publishing Profiles of the Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna in the EDB (Export Development Board) Trade Promotional Portal

Scholarly Work

Presentations

• Writing Examination Guidelines to the first year students, 2018 – to date.
• Students’ Counselor Presentation at Inauguration Ceremony for Freshers, Faculty of Applied Science, 2014.
• Presentation on Future Careers in IT, Vanni Career Fair – 2016, Vavuniya Campus, 2016.

Visiting Lecturer 

• Visiting Lecturer for Intensive Training Course on MS Office Applications for the Public Sector Staff, 2017.
• Visiting Lecturer for multi-disciplinary short course in Information Communication Technology for the Public Sector Staff of Northern Province, 2009.
• Visiting Instructor in Computing at Postgraduate Diploma in Public Administration course – 2004/2005, University of Jaffna, April 2005 – December 2005

Undergraduate Teaching

• Foundation of Mathematics
• Mathematics for Computing
• Computer Graphics
• Advanced Database Managements Systems
• Knowledge based System and Logic Programming
• Compiler Design
• Artificial Intelligence
• Augmented and Virtual Reality

Reviewer

• International Research Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE 2024),
  Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya.
• The Applied Science Business and Industrial Research Symposium (ASBIRES 2023), Faculty of
  Applied Sciences, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka.
• Faculty Annual Research Session (FARS 2023), Faculty of Applied Science, University of
  Vavuniya.
• First Annual Research Session 2020 (FARS2020), Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus, 2020
• Applied Science, Business & Industrial Research Symposium 2020 (ASBIRES2020), Faculty of Applied Science, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, 2019 – 2020
• Vavuniya Campus International Research Conference 2017 (VCIRS2017), Vavuniya Campus, 2017.
• Reviewer, Research Conference on Business Studies (RCBS 2016), Faculty of Business Studies, Vavuniya Campus, 2016.

• Reviewer, Research Conference on Business Studies (RCBS 2016), Faculty of Business Studies, Vavuniya Campus, 2016.

• Member, Editorial Committee, Journal of Science and Management, Vavuniya Campus, 2018

 Journals

• Thirukumaran, S. and Archana, A.F.C. (2017). Speech Emotion Classification Analysis using Short-term Features. Journal of Science EUSL,8(1), pp.13-22.
• Kajaluxshy, N. and Thirukumaran, S. (2016). Two-Dimensional Free Space Mesh Generation for Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Simulation using Finite Difference Method, OUSL Journal – 2016, Sri Lanka, 11, pp.1-22.
• Hoole, P. R. P. Thirukumaran, S., &Hoole, S.R.H. (2015). A Software Test-bed for Electrical Dynamics of Direct Cloud-to-Ground and Ground-to-Cloud Lightning Flashes to Aircraft: Initial Results, International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics, ISSN: 1383-5416 (Print)/1875-8800 (Online), IOS Press, DOI: 10.3233/JAE-140082.
• Thirukumaran, S., Hoole, P.R.P., Harikrishnan, R., Jeevan, K., Pirapaharan, K. &Hoole, S.R.H. (2014). A New Electric Dipole Model for Lightning-Aircraft Electrodynamics, The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering(COMPEL), ISSN: 0332-1649, Vol. 33, iss. 1/2, pp. 540-555, DOI: 10.1108/COMPEL-12-2012-0385.
• Hoole, P. R. P., Thirukumaran, S., Ramiah, H., Kanesan, J., &Hoole, S. R. H. (2014). Ground to Cloud Lightning Flash Currents and Electric Fields: Interaction with Aircraft and Production of Ionosphere Sprites, Journal of Computational Engineering, ISSN: 2356-7260 (Print) / 2314-6443 (Online), Vol. 2014, DOI: 10.1155/2014/869452.
• Thirukumaran, S., Hoole, P.R.P., Harikrishnan, R., Jeevan, K., Pirapaharan, K., &Hoole, S.R.H.(2013). Aircraft-Lightning Electrodynamics using the Transmission Line Model. Part I: Review of the Transmission Line Model, Progress In Electromagnetics Research M(PIER M), ISSN: 1937-8726, Vol. 31, pp. 85-101., DOI: 10.2528/PIERM12110303.

 Conferences

• D. K. Uthpala and S. Thirukumaran, “Sinhala-English Code-Mixed Language Dataset with Sentiment
  Annotation,” 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC),
  Belihuloya, Sri Lanka, 2024, pp. 184-188, doi: 10.1109/ICARC61713.2024.10499746.
• Jayasinghe H. and Thirukumaran S., Emotion Detection from Text Based Sentences using Machine
  Learning,” 2023 4th Faculty Annual Research Session (FARS), Faculty of Applied Science, University of
  Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, 25 Oct 2023, pp. 33.
• Uthpala, K., Thirukumaran, S. (2021) A Sentiment Analysis Dataset for Code-Mixed Sinhala-English Language, Proceedings of the Second Faculty Annual Research Session (FARS2021), pp. 91, Sri Lanka.
• Nawoda, D. and Thirukumaran, S. (2019). Artificial Neural Network Based Approach for Speech Emotion Recognition of Sinhala Language, Proceedings of the Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress, Sri Lanka, 2019.
• Vinotha, K. and Thirukumaran, S. (2018). Finite Element Method based Triangular Mesh Generation for Aircraft-Lightning Interaction Simulation, 3^rd International Conference on Advances in Computing and Technology (ICACT2018) Proceedings, Faculty of Computing and Technology, Kelaniya, p. 24.
• Dayani, P. and Thirukumaran, S. (2017). Artificial Neural Network based Emotions Recognition System for Tamil Speech. Kelaniya International Conference on Advances in Computing and Technology (KICACT-2017) Proceedings. Kelaniya, p.12.
• Archana, A.F.C., and Thirukumaran, S. (2016). Analysis of Emotional Speech Recognition Using Artificial Neural Network, Kelaniya International Conference on Advances in Computing and Technology(KICACT-2016) Proceedings, Kelaniya, p. 01.
• Fisher, J. Hoole, P.R.P., Pirapaharan, K., Thirukumaran, S. &Hoole, S.R.H.(2014). Three Dimensional Electric Dipole Model for Lightning-Aircraft Electrodynamics and Its Application to Low Flying Aircraft, International IEEE Conference on Lightning Protection(ICLP) 2014, pp. 435–439,
  DOI: 10.1109/ICLP.2014.6973163, Shanghai.
• Fisher, J., Hoole, P. R. P., Pirapaharan, K., Thirukumaran, S.&Hoole, S. R. H. (2014), Cloud to ground and ground to cloud flashes in lightning protection: and future severe lightning and climate change, International IEEE Conference on Lightning Protection(ICLP) 2014, pp. 440–445,
  DOI: 10.1109/ICLP.2014.6973164, Shanghai.
• Thirukumaran, S. Hoole, P.R.P., Harikrishnan, R., Jeevan, K. &Hoole, S.R.H.(2012), “Ground to Cloud and Cloud to Ground Lightning Flashes: A Comparative Study,” PIERS 2012 International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Thirukumaran, S. Hoole, P. R. P., Harikrishnan, R., Jeevan, K. &Hoole, S. R. H.(2012). Electrostatic Discharges (ESD): Rate of Rise of Currents and Radiated Electric Fields, PIERS 2012 International Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Hoole, P. R. P., Thirukumaran, S., Harikrishnan, R., Jeevan, K. &Hoole, S.R.H.(2012). Ground to Cloud Lightning Flash Currents and Electric Fields: Interaction with Aircraft and Production of Ionosphere Sprites, The 28th International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics Applied Computational Electromagnetics(ACES), Columbus, USA.
• Thirukumaran, NFC தொழில்நுட்பமும் அதன் பயன்பாடுகளும்;, பிரயோக விஞ்ஞானச் சுடர், சுடர் 12, இதழ் 1, Section B (Applied Sciences), Jaffna Science Association, Sri Lanka, 2019.

Visiting Researcher

Conference Chair

• Track Chair, First Annual Research Session 2020 (FARS2020), Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus, 2020
• Technical Session Chair, Applied Science, Business & Industrial Research Symposium 2020 (ASBIRES2020), Faculty of Applied Science, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, 2019 – 2020

Research Grants

• Awarded scholarship for MPhil by Research under Higher Education for Twentieth Century (HETC) Project by UGC-Ministry of Higher Education-World Bank, Sri Lanka, 2013.