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shyam.r@sliit.lk
Dr. Shyam Reyal
Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade)
Faculty of Computing | Information Technology
Career Summary
- Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade) at the Department of Information Technology, Faculty of Computing, SLIIT
- Group Chair - SLIIT-HCI Research Group
- Lecturer in Charge - Human-Computer Interaction (IT3060), Software Engineering Concepts (CMP3003)
- Research Project Supervisor - PhD, MPhil, MSc, Undergraduate Final Year Projects
- Co-Investigator(CI) - Culturally Sensitive Autism Assessment Tool (CSAAT) - on World Bank AHEAD Funding
- Member of Research Steering Committee of Faculty of Computing
- Workshop Leader and Competition Leader - Algothon Contest for SLIIT CodeFest 2020
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Computer Science - specialising in Human-Computer Interaction, University of St Andrews, UK
- B.Sc. (Hons) Eng - specialising in Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
HONOURS AND AWARDS
Research Interests and Memberships
Research Interests
- Human-Computer Interaction
- E-Learning and Education
- Software Engineering
- Process Automation
Memberships
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI), Colombo Chapter
Ongoing Research
- Sinhalese Mobile Text Entry Comparison (SMTEC)
- Marking Automation of Programming Assignments in Educational Institutions
- Culturally Sensitive Autism Assessment Tool (CSAAT)
- (MPhil) Health Information Systems enhanced by HCI Design Principles
- (MPhil) Code Refactoring Based on Machine Learning
- (MPhil) Speech-based end-to-end conversation management - speech recognition, dialogue management, and speech synthesis - for interaction between young children and robots
- (MPhil) Automatic playlist generation based on narrated human feelings
- (MPhil) Data-Driven marking automation using GCN Networks
My Publications
Conference Proceedings
- Shyam Reyal, Vijani Piyawardana, Dilani Kaveendri A Story of Two Surveys: For the Advancement of Sinhalese Mobile Text Entry Research in International Conference in Advancements in Computing, year 2020, Malabe, Sri Lanka, IEEE Sri Lanka, 10-11 December 2020,