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.

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

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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• S. W. Athapaththu; U. A. Piumi Ishanka, 'Plant Leaf Recognition Using Texture, Colour, and Vein Density Features', n Proc. 3^rd 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. 2^nd 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. 2^nd 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. 14^th 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",5^th 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 18^th 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 10^th Asia-Pacific Symposium Information and Telecommunication Technologies (APSITT),  IEEE. August 4-7, 2015.

• M.A. Ahmed Thaajwer, U.A. Piumi Ishanka, Melanoma Skin Cancer Detection Using Image Processing Techniques: A Systematic Literature Review, In 1^st International Women in Engineering Symposium, 15^th November 2020
• G.Sitparan, UA Piumi Ishanka, Hate Speech Recognition in tweets, In 1^st International Women in Engineering Symposium, 15^th 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.

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)

• 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

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 7^th 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 7^th International Conference of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (ICSUSL) 2019, (14^th-15^th November 2019)
• Faculty Coordinator: 8^th Annual Research Session, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka(19^th Dec. 2018)

Coordinating Editor

• SUSL Journal (Since 2021)

Editorial Board Member

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

Panel Member

• The 3^rd SLAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sri Lanka (12^th Dec. 2019)
• The 12^th International Research Conference, (KDU IRC 2019)  (11^th-12^th, 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), (6^th -  8^th March 2020)
• 14^th  IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2019), (18^th- 19^th Dec. 2019)
• The 12^th International Research Conference, (KDU IRC 2019)  (11^th-12^th, Sep.2019)
• 3^rd International Conference on Information Technology Research (ICITR2018),  (05^th- 07^th Dec. 2018)
• EdHat International Research Conference on Information Communication Technology (IRCICT),  (23^rd Nov.2018)
• The 11^th International Research Conference (IRC), (13^th Sep.2018)
• Journal Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 2018

• 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