Dr. Niranga Amarasingha specializes in Transportation Engineering, boasting over 20 years of training and experience across Sri Lanka, the U.S.A., the Netherlands, India, and Thailand. Beginning her professional journey as a civil engineer in the industry, she later transitioned into academia. A recipient of an Asian Development Bank scholarship, she pursued a master's degree spanning two years, subsequently embarking on her academic career. Holding roles as a lecturer at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and a post-doctoral associate at Kansas State University, U.S.A., she joined SLIIT in 2013.

At present, she teaches transportation engineering modules, with her research centering on a range of areas including traffic engineering and operations, transportation system modeling, planning and simulation, safety and human factors, highway/street design, railroad engineering, and multi-criteria decision making.

Throughout her tenure, she has made significant contributions to various national-level transportation projects. Currently, she serves transportation sector as the president of the Sri Lanka Society of Transport and Logistics.

- PhD in Civil /Transportation Engineering: Kansas State University, USA 

- MSc in Civil /Transportation Engineering: Thammasat University, Thailand 

- BSc (Honours) in Civil Engineering: University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

HONOURS AND AWARDS

• Principal Investigator of a AHEAD Research Grant, World Bank
• Best paper award recipient at at the 6th International Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry
• Best paper award recipient at at the 5th International Conference on Research for Transport & Logistics Industry
• Research excellence award recipient, SLIIT
• Teaching excellence award recipient, SLIIT
• Outstanding Civil Engineering Ph.D. student award recipient, KSU 
• Best paper award recipient at the 6th National Conference on Technology & Management
• Poster award recipient at MWITE and TRB 4th Urban Street Symposium, Chicago 
• Poster award recipient at MWITE, Annapolis
• Nominee for the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
• Nominee for Golden Key International Honor Society
• Missouri valley Section of ITE Thomas J. Seburn Award at Student Paper Competition

SCHOLARSHIPS

• For masters studies from ADB
• For doctoral studies from KSU Transportation Center
• For training on transportation planning and safety from INRETS
• For training on road safety from DRSC
• Several travel scholarships from diffrent institutes

Integrated Traffic Management System for Safe and Sustainable Mobility