Dr Nirosha Wedasinghe has bagged Asia's Best Multidisciplinary Research Award

Dr. Nirosha Wedasinghe had acquired her first degree in Computing and Information Systems from London Metropolitan University in the UK in 2005, and her masters from Charles Sturt University Australia in 2008. Dr. Wedasinghe has obtained her PhD in Information Systems.

Recently she was successful in winning 'Asia's Best Multidisciplinary Research Award’ from the prestige Asia Award powered by Rula Award.

In Addition to that she was awarded with the Best research paper award and best presenter awards in the international conferences. She also received grants to present her Research publication in the IEEE International Conferences in Bangladesh and Asia Pacific International Research Conference held in Japan.

Currently She is an active member of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka and Internet Society of Sri Lanka Chapter. She is the first student patron of the Computer Society student chapter of Sri Lanka. 

She joined the IT Industry in 1997 and she has started her career as an academic in the year 2008 after she has completed her Masters. She has worked as program manager for International Universities including Charles Sturt University Australia, Wolverhampton University UK. She also visited lectures for University of Greenwich and University of Northampton UK.

She has held many administrative positions in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University including the Research Coordinator of the Faculty, the Faculty Student Counselor, the In charge of MBA in E-Governance program, Program coordinator for Information systems Degree program and the Chair person of curriculum development committee of Faculty of Computing. 

She pursued her PhD research in Disability Digital Divide and she is interested in Management Information Systems, Data Science and E-Governance research. She has secured several Indexed journal publications and many conference publications at international level. 

At present Dr. Wedasinghe is Sen Lecturer of the Faculty of Computing in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.