- Faculty of Information Technology
- Department of Information Technology
- Senior Lecturer Grade II
Contact information
Department of Information Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Data Structures and Algorithms -Undergraduate -2015
Object Oriented Programming -Undergraduate -2015
Object Oriented Programming -Undergraduate -2021
Enterprise Application Development -Undergraduate -2021
Geographic Information Systems -Undergraduate -2022
Web Technologies and eBusiness Systems -Postgraduate -2022
Software Testing and Quality Assurance -Postgraduate -2022
Object Oriented Programming -Postgraduate -2022
Fundamentals of Database and Database Design -Undergraduate -2014
Data Mining & Data Warehouse -Undergraduate -2023
Director of Undergraduate Studies - (2023 To date)
Research Activities
AI for Social Good
Data Science
Education and Professional Affiliations
Bachelors, University of Moratuwa ,2013 Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology (First class)
PhD, National University of Singapore ,2021 Department of Computer Science
The Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers (IEEE)(2020 To date)
IEEE Computer Society(2020 To date)
IEEE Young Professionals (2020 To date)
Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (Section E3 - Computer Science)(2023 To date)
Career
Chairperson, Faculty Academic Committee (FAC), 2023
Member, Senate Curriculum & Evaluation Committee
Member, Faculty Board, 2021 to date
Member, Faculty Academic Committee (FAC), 2014-2015, 2021 to date
Member, Faculty Quality Assurance Cell (FQAC), 2015, 2023 to date
Member, Staff-Student Liaison Meeting of the Faculty of IT, 2014-2015, 2021 to date
Member/Departmental Representative, Faculty-Industry Consultative Board (FICB), 2021-2023
Representative, Career Guidance Unit, University of Moratuwa, 2022 to date
Editor and Member of ExCom 2024-2025 - IEEE Computer Society Sri Lanka Chapter
Honours and Awards
NUS Research Scholarship for PhD study in Computer Science (Received 2015)
Gold Medal for obtaining the highest GPA - Batch 2007/08 , Faculty of Information Technology, University of Moratuwa (Received 2013)
Publications*
T. Thanthriwatta and D. S. Rosenblum,".Instance Selection for Online Updating in Dynamic Recommender Environments.",Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), ,2021,
T. Thanthriwatta and D. S. Rosenblum,".Improving Dynamic Recommendation using Network Embedding for Context Inference.",IEEE 32nd International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), ,2020,
Y.H.P.P.Priyadarshana,K.I.H. Gunathunga, K.K.A.Nipuni N.Perera, L. Ranathunga, P.M. Karunaratne.,".Sentiment Analysis: Measuring Sentiment Strength of Call Centre Conversations.",IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Communication Technologies (ICECCT),India,2015,9-Jan
T.M. Thanthriwatta, P.M. Karunaratne,".An effective approach for personalized web search based on community-cluster analysis.",ITRU Research Symposium,University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2013,