Anuja Dharmaratne

Assoc Professor

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

-Event based feature detection and image classification
-EEG and QEEG analysis for early detection of psychological disorders
-Analysis of common learning behaviour patterns in programming classrooms

20032024

Research activity per year

Personal profile

Biography

Anuja Dharmaratne is an Associate Professor attached to the Department of Human Centred Computing (HCC) at Faculty of IT. She graduated from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka in 1995 with a First Class Honours in Computer Science. She had her postgraduate education at Hiroshima University, Japan and obtained her M.Eng and Doctoral degrees from the Graduate School of Engineering in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Her main research interests are in Image Processing, Computer Vision, Game based education,  Learning Analytics, Digital Health and ICT for Society.

She has served Monash University Malaysia for 9+ years from 2014-2023 and  University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) from 1996-2013.

Research interests

  • Image Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Game based Education
  • Learning Analytics
  • Digital Health
  • ICT for Society

Monash teaching commitment

  • FIT3081- Image Processing
  • FIT3155 - Advanced Algorithms and data structures
  • FIT2014 - Theory of Computation
  • FIT2004 - Algorithms & Data Structures
  • ITO4001- Foundations of Computing

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

Information Engineering, Doctor of Engineering, Hiroshima University

1 Apr 20004 Mar 2004

Award Date: 4 Mar 2004

Information Engineering, Master of Engineering, Hiroshima University

1 Apr 199824 Mar 2000

Award Date: 24 Mar 2000

Computer Science, B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science, University of Colombo

Award Date: 1 Nov 1995

External positions

Associate Professor, Monash University Malaysia

13 Jan 201421 Mar 2023

Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo

19962013

Research area keywords

  • Image Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Learning Analytics
  • Game based Education
  • Digital Health
  • ICT for Society

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