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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 Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka

Education

He received his BSc(Hons) in Computer Science from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2004. He was awarded the Ashoka Amunugama Memorial award for his best performances at the University of Peradeniya. He obtained his Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands in 2010. In 2017, he obtained his Doctor of Engineering Degree in Computer Science from the Wuhan University of Technology in PR China.

Academic career

Professor S. Vasanthapriyan has nearly Eignteen 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/IEEEbased 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 is serving as the Head of the Data Science Department and the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Computing.

On 3rd of May 2023, 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.