Ms. Narmada Gamage

Lecturer

Faculty of Computing | Computer Systems Engineering

Career Summary

Narmada Gamage is a Lecturer attached to the Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology.She completed her bachelor’s degree in ‘Information Technology’ with a First Class Honours at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology and entered the academia by joining Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology as an Academic Instructor. She completed her master's degree in Business Analytics from University of Colombo School of Computing

Furthermore, she is an active member of SLIIT Toastmasters club and faculty of computing timetabling team. Her research interests are Assistive Technology, Business Analytics and Machine Learning.

April 2022 - Present : Lecturer , Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information
April 2018 – 2022 : Assistant Lecturer , Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka
July 2017 – April 2018 : Instructor, Department of Computer Systems Engineering, Faculty of Computing, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka
September 2016 – July 2017 : Research Assistant, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Master of Business Analytics, University of Colombo School of Computing
B.Sc. Special Honours degree in Information Technology (Specialization in Information Technology), Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology
Certified in IT Essentials (Cisco Networking Academy - SLIIT)

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Project "TangiGuru" - Asia Runner-Up Award at Microsoft Imagine Cup - 2023
Project "TangiGuru" - SLASSCOM Ingenuity Award – Best innovative product / project – University category – National Winner - 2023
Project "TangiGuru" - SLASSCOM Ingenuity Award – Best innovative product / project – University category – Southern province Winner - 2023
Project "LandVal" - Bronze Award in the Tertiary Business category - NBQSA 2022
Overall academic excellence award in BSc (IT)
Special merit award - E-Swabhimani- National Best E-Content Award 2016

Research Interests and Memberships

Research Interests

Assistive Technology
Machine Learning
Business Analytics

Memberships

Member of Institution of Engineering and Technology
Member of SLIIT Toastmasters Club
Member of IEEE

Ongoing Research

Audio assistance for vision impaired individual to recognize complex content on print disable documents
Stock market prediction-based research on RNN

My Publications

Conference Proceedings

N.D.U.Gamage, K.W.C.Jayadewa, K.L.A.D.Udeshitha, S.M.N.K.B.Senanayake, S.M.U.P.Samarakoon, T.M.Hennayake Press plus- Interactive mobile application for effective news reading in 12th International Conference on Computer Science and Education., year 2017, pp.380 - 385, IEEE,
Narmada Gamage, Wenura Jayadewa, Ashan Dulanja, Bhagya Senanayake, Anuradha Jayakody Audio Assistance for Vision Impaired Individual to Recognize Graphical Content on Print Disable Documents in IET 24th Annual Technical Conference, year 2017, IET Sri Lanka,
Anuradha Jayakody, Shashika Lokuliyana, Iain Murray, Narmada Gamage Optimized AccessBIM Model to Assist Vision Impaired Individuals with Real-time Indoor Map in First One Curtin International Postgraduate Conference, year 2017, Curtin University, Malaysia,