{"id":1286,"date":"2023-03-15T08:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T08:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/?post_type=post_speaker&#038;p=1286"},"modified":"2023-10-30T03:55:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T03:55:14","slug":"dr-ruvan-weerasinghe","status":"publish","type":"post_speaker","link":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/icter_2023\/speaker\/dr-ruvan-weerasinghe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/btRhOfOQeV0\" title=\"ICTer 2023 - Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Biography<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">A former Director of the University of Colombo School of Computing, I have also served as a Visiting Professor at the Management &amp; Science University of Malaysia (MSU) in 2010-2011, visiting Faculty at the Umea University of Sweden in the Fall of 2013 and Dean of the Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka in 2015\/2016. In 2001 I was an ERCIM Fellow at France\u2019s INRIA Labs and in 2002, a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar at Carnegie-Mellon University\u2019s Language Technology Institute in Pittsburgh, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">I have served on various committees and boards at the University Grants Commission (UGC), Ministries of Education and Higher Education (MoE and MoHE), the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Information &amp; Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) over the years. I was part of the Sri Lankan negotiating team with the World Bank on the e-Sri Lanka Project in 2003, and the Chairman of the Education Ministry Task Force for establishing a dedicated National College of Education for ICT in 2008\/9. I was also part of the original group involved in introducing Internet and email connectivity to the universities and the country as a whole through the Lanka Education And Research Network (LEARN). From 1997 to 2001, I was an Instructor with the Internet Society\u2019s (ISOC) International Network Training (INET) Workshops around the world, and a Team Leader in 1997\/2000 of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) team of Sri Lanka. I serve as a member of the ICT Advisory Committee of the Export Development Board (EDB) and the Sectoral Committee on ICT of the Sri Lanka Standards Institute (SLSI). I am also a founder member of the Lanka Software Foundation (LSF), a prime mover of open source software in Sri Lanka and a subscriber of the Lanka Domain Registry (LKNIC). I serve as a member of the Board of Sri Lanka CERT and the Advisory Board of the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">Most recently, I am on national committees for upscaling the talent pool in data science through the National Human Resource Development Council (NHRDC), for setting up of a Biotechnology park through the Ministry of Science Technology and Research (MoSTR), for designing a National Export Strategy in Sri Lanka through the Export Development Board (EDB) and for developing a policy for promoting Knowledge Services through the National Science and Technology Commission (NASTEC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"justify\">My research interests are in Computational Linguistics including Machine Translation, and particularly in techniques employing statistical methods and machine learning using large data sets. I led a group of 6-8 researchers involved in Language Technology at the UCSC\u2019s Language Technology Research Lab (LTRL) from 2004 till 2018. My research interests expand naturally to Artificial Intelligence and more recently Bioinformatics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: A former Director of the University of Colombo School of Computing, I have also served as a Visiting Professor at the Management &amp; Science University of Malaysia (MSU) in 2010-2011, visiting Faculty at the Umea University of Sweden in the Fall of 2013 and Dean of the Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/icter_2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker\/1286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/icter_2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/icter_2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post_speaker"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/icter_2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/icter_2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icter.lk\/icter_2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}