Professor Lalith Gamage

Professor Lalith  Gamage
Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer Professor
Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

Adjunct Professor
Curtin University, Australia

Visiting Professor
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Address

Office    BoC Merchant Tower,
28 St. Michael’s Road Colombo 3,
Sri Lanka

Telephone    

+94-11-230 1903,

Email    

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Educational Details
(a)  BSc Engineering (Hons) University of Moratuwa    
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (April 1985)    
Field of Specialization : Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering  

(b)  MSc Information Technology De Montfort University
Leicester, U. K. (November 1987)

(c)  PhD Computer Vision University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada (November 1993)
PhD Research : Model-Based Computer Vision for Process Automation

Academic Awards                         
British Council Scholarship (for Master's degree)
Commonwealth Science Council Fellowship
University of British Columbia Fellowship (for PhD)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia

Research Awards
Japanese Space Agency (NASDA) Research Award, 1996 – 1999
Research: Monitoring and Prediction of Coastal Erosion Using ADEOS Satellite Data

Other Awards
The Outstanding  Young Person of the year (TOYP) 2000 for Academic Leadership

Membership in Directorates
(i).    Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
(ii).   Sri Lanka Technology Incubator (ConceptNursery.com)  - Chairman
(iii).  SLIIT Computing (Pvt.) Ltd.
(iv).  InfoCraft Ltd.
(v).   Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies – Chairman
(vi).  Sri Lanka CERT (Pvt.) Ltd.
(vii). Lanka Software Foundation
(viii).Serendib Hotels Ltd.

Previous Membership in Directorates
(i).    National Apprenticeship and Industrial Training Authority – Jan 2000 to November 2001
(ii).    Sri Lanka EDI Network Services Ltd. – Jan 2000 – Dec 2002

Professional Memberships
(i).    British Computer Society – Member, CITP (Chartered Information Technology Professional)
(ii).    Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Member