Rate My Professor Ayantha Gomes

Dr. Ayantha Gomes serves as Lecturer (Curtin Colombo) in the Global Curtin portfolio at Curtin University, with his office located in Building 204 on the Curtin Perth campus. Pattiyage Ishan Ayantha Gomes holds a PhD from Saitama University in Japan, an MSc from the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka, and a BSc (Eng) Hons from the same institution. A chartered engineer specializing in Civil and Environmental Engineering, he focuses on water and environment, including urban ecosystems, urban waterways and hydrology, headwater streams, environmental impact assessments, waste management, eco-hydraulics, stream and river rehabilitation, ephemeral streams, and climate change impacts on the construction industry. His minor specialization is real estate economics, emphasizing condominium apartments. Gomes has accumulated professional and academic experience across Sri Lanka, Hong Kong SAR, and Japan.

Currently also Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Gomes has received the Presidential awards for scientific publications in 2014, SLIIT Researcher of the Year award in 2018, Certificate of Merit for research performance in citations in 2020, and Certificate of Special recognition for top 10% Scopus CiteScore index in 2020. He is a member of the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, serves on the technical committee of the Green Building Council Sri Lanka, and is affiliated with the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. His ongoing research includes the Dutch canal rehabilitation in Colombo funded by the National Research Council of Sri Lanka (NRC 17-066), ecological rehabilitation of Yuen Long Nullah in Hong Kong, and stream flow generation in headwater streams. Key publications include 'Evaluating expressway traffic crash severity by using logistic regression and explainable & supervised machine learning classifiers' (Transportation Engineering, 2023), 'Tree colonization trends on a sediment bar after a major flood' (River Research and Applications, 2011), 'Spatial and temporal tree colonization in a midstream sediment bar and the mechanisms governing tree mortality during a flood event' (River Research and Applications, 2010), 'Phytoremediation of heavy metals by calcifying macro-algae (Nitella pseudoflabellata)' (Chemosphere, 2013), and 'Phycoremediation of Chromium (VI) by Nitella and impact of calcium encrustation' (Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2009). His research has garnered hundreds of citations and contributes to advancements in environmental restoration and water quality management.