Professor Lalith Gamage , MBCS, MIEE is a Sri Lankan academic. He is a

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, currently serving as the president and

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Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (; ; also known as SLIIT) is a private university located in Malabe and Colombo, Sri Lanka. It specialises in various fields like technology and management. SLIIT has three campuses. The main campu ...

, a position he has held since the beginning of the institute in 1999. He has also served as the Chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies.Prof. Lalith Gamage Chairman of the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies
/ref> As a leading Sri Lankan academic in the field of

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, Prof Gamage has played an important role in the development of IT education, research and industry in Sri Lanka.People, Industrial Automation Group
Over 600 graduate at SLIIT 2009 convocation

Education and research

Educated at St. Aloysius College, Galle, Gamage gained his BSc in Engineering from the

University of Moratuwa The University of Moratuwa (also referred as Moratuwa University) ( ''Moraṭuwa Wiśwawidyālaya'', ) is a public university in Sri Lanka. It is located on the bank of the Bolgoda Lake in Katubedda, Moratuwa, a suburb of Sri Lanka's capital C ...

after which he gained and MSc from the

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and a

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from the

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. His research areas include Computer Vision, Computational Intelligence and Robotics. Gamage has published numerous research papers and has won a prestigious

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research award.

Academic career

Joining University of Moratuwa as a lecturer Gamage went on to serve as a senior lecturer and the Director of the Computing Services Centre of the Moratuwa University. He has also served as a Council Member of the University of Moratuwa. In 1999 he played a prominent role in establishing

(SLIIT) becoming its

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and a senior lecturer, in 2003 he was made a Professor of SLIIT. Under his tenure SLIIT has become the largest technology institute in Sri Lanka, of which he is the current

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. Currently he also serves as a visiting professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering,

and is attached to the Industrial Automation Group and is also an adjunct professor of the

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. Apart from his academic he has served the IT industry and the Government of Sri Lanka in many capacities. These include the Chairman of the ICT Cluster of the

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sponsored competitiveness initiative, the executive director of Trade Information Network, Sri Lanka Export Development Board, and Chairman of the IT Task Force, Ministry of Enterprise Development, Industrial Policy, and Investment Promotion.

Family

He is married to a daughter of

Kingsley Wickramaratne Kingsley Tissa Wickramaratne (died 2008, aged 75) was the 5th Governor of Southern Province, Governor of Southern Province, Sri Lanka. Wickramaratne held the position from 1 February 2002, through 23 October 2006, when he was replaced by Kumari Ba ...

, who was the former Minister of Trade and Commerce and the Governor of the Southern Province.

Awards

*'' The Outstanding Young Person ''award for his contribution towards academic development. - 2000SLASSCOM
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research award.

References

External links

SLIIT faculty
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