Chartered Engineer, Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, and Startup Founder.
Sri Lanka
Joined December 2015
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@murtazajaff at IESL Annual Sessions keynote shows the short-term surge and medium-term contraction of the labour force in Sri Lanka. He says the solution is to dramatically increase the female labour force participation and increase the age of retirement.
Another interesting comment is about Value Addition: @murtazajaff is of the opinion that Sri Lanka trying to do high value addition is, charitably put, stupid.
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, we have cryptographically secure products ready to deploy in our #MoraCyberSecurity stall: eTendering, ePrivacy, eVoice, and eRating.
We are having a Research Showcase event at the @cse_uom for a team of professors visiting from @NUSingapore. @SurangaN @wsanda89 @SankaRasnayaka @sunimalrat
Most EV battery packs have enough capacity at the time of replacement for a new use. This distributed Battery Management System is to give them a second-life. Ask @BinaraHerath for details.
This event is held at the SLIOT Design Innovation Lab jointly managed and operated by the CSE department and @slt_mobitel for young creative innovators in Sri Lanka.
Zyntra is a wearable for athletes to help decide when to stop and when to restart training based on signal processing. Work done by Hasini Dikkumbura.
SeaWave is a low-cost Cral Reef Monitoring System to protect one of our most endangered natural assets. Ask @DinethSankalpaR for details.
VisionNav is a vision AI model based system to assist vision-impaired person to get everyday tasks done independently. Ask @Sudilmin for details.
GhostAlert is a low power IoT node network based system for Hazard prediction and detection. Work done by Sanjuna Rathnamalala.
A smart ring for continuous monitoring of physiological and motion data on an open platform. Work done by Sandali Divyangi.
Making solid tyre curing more energy efficient. This is @thermotune_ R&D at the CSE department. Ask @Radershan for details. This work was done by Yasiru Bandara.
Dr @NisansaDdS, this is our students explaining their FYP work and incorrectly using the transitive. It is always "we completed yesterday" or "we discussed last week" without telling what it is! 🙄
As Sri Lankan youth graduate after 25 (for 3 year degrees) and 26 (for 4 year degrees) from State Universities, the graduate glut situation should be worse than IMF reporting. They define youth as 15-24 years old.
A record 1.2 billion young people will enter developing-world labor markets over the next decade, even as AI raises new questions about the future of work, Harry Jacques writes from Southeast Asia in F&D magazine. imf.org/en/publications/fand…
Dr @NisansaDdS, are you building guard rails against bias in your corpus munching systems? 🤨
Every citizen must listen to @sanjanah’s warning about architecture of repression being built via law and technology as it will affect everyone, not only ppl you think are ‘criminal’, ‘deviant’, ‘anti-national etc. Govts lull ppl into false sense of security by telling them that