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Dr. UAP Ishanka

Senior Lecturer

Applied Sciences

Email : ishankauap@appsc.sab.ac.lk

    Qualifications

    • D.Eng. (Information Science and Control Engineering), Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan (2018)
    • M.Eng. (Management and Information Systems), Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan (2015)
    • BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Technology, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (2009)

    Profile

  • I serve Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka as a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Applied Sciences. I graduated from Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka in 2009 and after graduation, I worked as a Software Engineer. In 2010, I joined Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka as an academic supportive staff at the faculty of Applied Sciences. I obtained my Master’s degree and Ph.D. in 2015 and 2018 respectively, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan.

    Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

    • Institute of Electrical Electronics Engineering (IEEE), Member
    • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Member
    • The Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL), Member

    Research Interests

    • Information Filtering
    • Sentiment Analysis
    • Machine Learning 
    • Data Mining
    • Image processing
    • Natural Language Processing

    Undergraduate Supervision

    • Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection Using Image Processing and Machine Learning Techniques
    • Plant leaf Recognition: Comparing Contour-based and Region-Based Feature Extraction
    • Usability Testing and Interaction Design for Patient Management System in OPD's Using Queuing Theory

    Research Publication in Indexed Journals

    • U. A. Piumi Ishanka and Takashi Yukawa, “The Prefiltering Techniques in Emotion Based Place Recommendation Derived by User Reviews”, Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, vol. 2017,10 pages, 2017.

    Research Publication in refereed Journals

    • Piumi Ishanka UA and Takashi Yukawa, “ An Analysis of Emotion and user Behavior in Context-Aware Travel Recommendation Systems using Pre-Filtering and Tensor Factorization Techniques”, Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology: D Neural & Artificial Intelligence, 2018

    Published as full paper at the National/International Conferences/Symposium

    • S. W. Athapaththu; U. A. Piumi Ishanka, 'Plant Leaf Recognition Using Texture, Colour, and Vein Density Features', n Proc. 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC 2023), February 23-24, 
    • MA. Ahmed Thaajwer, UA. Piumi Ishanka, “Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection Using Image Processing and Machine Learning Techniques”, in Proc. 2nd IEEE International Conference on International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC 2020), SLIIT, Sri Lanka
    • S. Donesh, UA. Piumi Ishanka, “Plant leaf Recognition: Comparing Contour-based and Region-Based Feature Extraction”, in Proc. 2nd IEEE International Conference on International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC 2020), SLIIT, Sri Lanka
    • S Donesh, UA Piumi Ishanka, “Plant Recognition System based on Leaf Images: A Systematic Literature Review”, in Proc. 13th International Research Conference, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka
    • W.M.N.B. Weerakoon , S. Vasanthapriyan and U.A.P. Ishanka , “A Queuing Model for Outpatient Department to Reduce Unnecessary Waiting Times” in Proc. 14th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2019), University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. 
    • Ishanka UAP, Takashi Yukawa. (2018). "User emotion and Personality in context-aware Travel Recommendation",5th International Conference on Advanced Informatics, Concepts, Theory and Applications (ICAICTA),2018, IEEE. August 14-17,2018.
    • Ishanka UAP, Takashi Yukawa. (2017). “A Context-aware Place Recommendation System based on Emotion and User Behavior as Contextual Parameters”. the 18th International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (ISIS 2017): Springer International Publishing. October 11-14, 2017.
    • Ishanka, U. P., & Marasinghe, A. “Supporting user interaction of social network mobile application with multimodal interaction”. In 10th Asia-Pacific Symposium Information and Telecommunication Technologies (APSITT),  IEEE. August 4-7, 2015.

    Published in abstract/Extended abstract at the National/International Conferences/Symposium

    • M.A. Ahmed Thaajwer, U.A. Piumi Ishanka, Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection Using Image Processing Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review, In 1st International Women in Engineering Symposium, 15th November 2020
    • G.Sitparan, UA Piumi Ishanka, Hate Speech Recognition in tweets, In 1st International Women in Engineering Symposium, 15th November 2020
    • Ishanka, U. P., Marasinghe, A., & Pradeep Kalansooriya “An adaptive multimodal approach to user behavior sensing social network application”. In the 3rd International GIGAKU Conference in Nagaoka (IGCN), June 20-22 ,2014.

    Chapters and Books of Scholarly Work

    1. Randika Jeewantha Herath & Piumi Ishanka (2022), An Approach to Sri Lankan Sign Language Recognition Using Deep Learning with MediaPipe, In a Part of the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems book series (LNNS,volume 454) (DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01942-5_45)
    2. S. P. W. S. K. Karunarathna, U.A. Piumi Ishanka, Banujan Kuhaneswaran (2023), Machine Learning-Based Sentiment Analysis of Mental Health-Related Tweets by Sri Lankan Twitter Users During the COVID-19 Pandemic, in the book of Global Perspectives on Social Media Usage Within Governments, pp. 236-256. IGI Global, 2023 (DOI:10.4018/978-1-6684-7450-1.ch016)

    Recognized National/International awards for learning, research and teaching

    • Obtained Monbukagakusho Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship for Doctoral study.  Nagaoka University of Technology, 2015- 2018
    • Obtained Monbukagakusho Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship for Master’s study. Nagaoka University of Technology, 2013- 2015

    Editor-in-Chief of Journals/Editorial Board Member/Program Chair/Reviewer

  • Conference Committee Member

    • Technical Program Committee Co-chair: The 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC 2023), 2023 (IEEE)
    • Publication Chair: The 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC 2023), 2023 (IEEE)
    • Technical Program Committee Chair: The 7th International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR 2022) , 2022 (IEEE)
    • Conference Chair: The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC 2022), 2022 (IEEE)
    • Conference Chair: The 1st International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC 2021), 2021
    • Conference Secretary: The 7th International Conference of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (ICSUSL) 2019, (14th-15th November 2019)
    • Faculty Coordinator: 8th Annual Research Session, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka(19th Dec. 2018)

     

    Coordinating Editor

    • SUSL Journal (Since 2021)

    Editorial Board Member

    • 8th Annual Research Session, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka(19th Dec. 2018)

    Panel Member

    • The 3rd SLAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sri Lanka (12th Dec. 2019)
    • The 12th International Research Conference, (KDU IRC 2019)  (11th-12th, Sep.2019)

    Reviewer

    • INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE ON SMART COMPUTING AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 2022
    • Applied Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium 2022
    • 3rd International Conference on Advancements in Computing (ICAC 2021)
    • International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics(ICIPRob2020), (6th -  8th March 2020)
    • 14th  IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2019), (18th- 19th Dec. 2019)
    • The 12th International Research Conference, (KDU IRC 2019)  (11th-12th, Sep.2019)
    • 3rd International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR2018),  (05th- 07th Dec. 2018)
    • EdHat International Research Conference on Information Communication Technology (IRCICT),  (23rd Nov.2018)
    • The 11th International Research Conference (IRC), (13th Sep.2018)
    • Journal Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2018

     

    Undergraduate Teaching

    • IS 21213 Personal Productivity with IS Technology
    • IS 21219 Social and Professional Issues
    • IS 31231 Management of Information Systems
    • IS 41252 Multimedia Hypermedia System Development
    • IS 42853 Research Project in Information Systems
    • IS 42255 Business Process Simulation