Ishan Abeywardena
Senior Lecturer in Information Technology
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PENANG, Malaysia
Member since: Aug 23, 2010
Last active on: Jan 18, 2012 at 08:01 PM (EST)
About
Ishan Abeywardena
I received my first MSc in Wireless Enterprise Business Systems and my second MSc in Engineering Management from Brunel University, UK. I also studied Applied Simulation in Robotics at Dortmund University, Germany and hold a BSc in Computer Science from Bangalore University, India. I'm currently pursuing my PhD in Computer Science at University of Malaya. Having been in the software/technology industry prior to joining Wawasan Open University (WOU), Penang, Malaysia, my industry experience comes mostly from UK and Sri Lanka in software development, web development, e-commerce, project management, operations and R&D. Currently I’m a professional member of the BCS and IEEE. My present research is on Open Educational Resources (OER) under an IDRC grant. My research interests are OER, Technology for ODL, Virtual Collaboration, Intelligent Algorithms, Learning Algorithms. In my spare time I read Sci-Fi novels (favourite author is Michael Crichton), compose poetry, code intelligent algorithms and keep monster fish.
Some Achievements:
Gold Medal for Best Paper Award, Asian Association of Open Universities Annual Conference – Penang, Malaysia, 2011
Winner of the Celcom League of Extraordinary Developers Mini Challenge in BlackBerry Playbook device programming, Penang, 2011
Silver Medal for Best Paper Award, Asian Association of Open Universities Annual Conference – Hanoi, Vietnam, 2010
Runner-up, WestFocus Bright Ideas Competition (Technology) – London, UK, 2008
Runner-up, CEEDA Make A Difference (MAD) ideas competition (Technology) – London, UK, 2008
Highly Commended, British Council International Student Awards – London, UK, 2008
Best Outgoing Student, Brindhavan College- Bangalore, India, 2005
First Place, IT Gardenia 2003 “Just Code IT” programming competition – Bangalore, India, 2003
N.L.A De Mel Memorial Award for English Literature, Royal College – Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2002