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Biography

Professor S. Vasanthapriyan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. He is the founder and founding Dean of Faculty of Computing of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka.

Academic career

Professor S. Vasanthapriyan has nearly Eighteen years of experience as an academic lecturer at the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka Since September 2005. In 2011, he was appointed as the first Head of the Department of Computing and Information Systems and served until September 2014. He was an Executive Member of the Standing Committee for Computing at University Grant Commission, representing the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka from the period 05-2011 to 08-2014, which helped him to design and implement the ACM/IEEE based curriculum for the Department of Computing and Information Systems in 2014. Further, he also took the leadership to Commence BSc Hons in Software Engineering at the Department of Computing and Information Systems in 2021 with 58 students in its first batch.

He is serving as a Professor in Computer Science since October 2019. He served as Head of the Department from May 2020 to October 2022. He also served as the Coordinator of the Faculty of Computing which is the 9th Faculty of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka. Since the 02nd of January 2023, he has been serving as the Head of the Data Science Department and the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Computing.

On the 3rd of May 2023, the Professor became the founding Dean of the Faculty of Computing of the Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka.

He is also a Senior Member of IEEE.