Dr. Asanka P. Sayakkara
PhD (UCD, Dublin), B.Sc. (Hons) (Colombo), SMIEEE

About Me

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I'm currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka. I received my PhD, in the field of Information Security and Digital Forensics, from the University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland in 2020. During my PhD studies, I worked with the Forensic & Security Research (ForSec) group and Artificial Intelligence Solution for Cyber Security, Digital Forensics and Smart Systems (ASEADOS) lab of UCD. Prior to my PhD studies, I worked with the Sustainable Computing Research (SCoRe) group until 2017. I completed my bachelors degree at the University of Colombo School of Computing in 2013.

My research interests revolve around Embedded Systems, Digital Forensics, Hardware Security, and Side-Channel Analysis. I'm an admirer of the open-source movement and a power user of the GNU/Linux operating system. I love reading books on any topic that grabs my attention from science, history, fiction, politics, philosophy to everything else. I'm occasionally writing a blog as well, which you can access in Blogspot.

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