KP Hewagamage

Professor K. P. Hewagamage obtained his B.Sc. special degree in Computer Science (First Class Honors) from the University of Colombo and his Doctor of Engineering in Information Engineering from Hiroshima University in Japan. He is a professor in Computer Science in the Department of Information Engineering at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) and a former director of the UCSC.

Professor Hewagamage has key research interests in the areas of Human-Computer Interaction, Software Engineering, e-Learning, and ICT for Education and Development. He was the author or co-author of more than 150 research publications during the last 24 years, and his h-index is 15 (2022), according to Google scholar (https://bit.ly/kph-schoar). He also received more than 20 national and international awards for his scholarly work in research. Those awards include the Professor Mohan Munasinghe Award for the outstanding computer science graduate in 1994 at the convocation of the University of Colombo, the best paper award at IEEE International Conference of Visual Languages in 1999, the research excellence award by the University of Colombo in 2004, 2006 and 2012, UNESCO award ICT for education in 2007, and the excellent paper award at the IEEE Ubi-Media conference in 2018. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ACM, and an academic advocate of ISACA. He was a chair of IEEE Computer Society Chapter in Sri Lanka.

Dr. K. P. Hewagamage was the head of the department of Information Systems Engineering, of UCSC and coordinator of e-learning Centre of UCSC. He was also coordinator of the National e-Learning Project funded by the Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) and was the principal investigator of many international projects funded by international agencies. At the same time, he has helped the University of Colombo to establish international collaboration with many foreign universities and agencies. He was a visiting researcher of Stockholm University, Sweden, and Shimane University, Japan.