About Me
Lasith Gunawardena is a Professor and Head of the Department of Information Technology at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. At present, he also spearheads the university’s innovation arm—the Innovation, Invention, and Venture Creation Council (IIVCC)—as its Co-Chair. He serves on the Researcher Advisory Council of ORCID Inc., the Advisory Board of STEMUp Foundation, and is the Crossref Ambassador for Sri Lanka. With over 25 years of teaching and research experience, his interests span open data, digital transformation, information security, human-computer interaction, and educational technologies. He received his B.Sc. in Physical Sciences with First Class Honors from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, a Master’s in Advanced Computing from the University of Colombo School of Computing and a Doctor of Engineering from Shimane University, Japan. A Fellow of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, UK, Lasith is also a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).