Rate My Professor Hansika Mahaadikara

Ms. Hansika Mahaadikara serves as Lecturer (Curtin Colombo) in the Global Curtin portfolio at Curtin University, operating from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) campus. She holds the position of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Systems Engineering within the Faculty of Computing at SLIIT. Her academic qualifications include a Master of Science in Information Technology from SLIIT, awarded in January 2014, and a Bachelor of Science Special (Honours) in Information Technology (Second Class Upper Division) with a specialization in Computer Systems & Networking from SLIIT, completed in January 2011. Additionally, she earned a CCNA certification in 2010.

Throughout her career, Ms. Mahaadikara has been engaged in teaching and research in information technology and engineering fields. Since 2017, she has served as a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor for the SLIIT Cisco Academy and as Lecturer at SLIIT, advancing to Senior Lecturer. From 2011 to 2017, she was an Assistant Lecturer at SLIIT, and in 2011, she worked as an IT Instructor there. Her early career included roles as an IT Teacher at Holy Cross College in Gampaha in 2009 and at Negombo South International School in Negombo in 2010. Her areas of specialization are Computer Systems & Networking, with research interests in Social Networks, Telecommunication, Cyber Forensics, and IoT Security. Key publications include 'Guaranteeing Quality of Service and Low Power Consumption in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks' (ICTer, 2014), co-authored with JADC Anuradha Jayakody; 'Secured, Reliable, Low Power Consumption Ad-Hoc Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks' (NCTM, 2014); 'Smart Assistant: A Solution to Facilitate Vision Impaired Individuals' (NITC, 2018); 'Service Provider Allocation and Customers’ Service Requests Management System' (ICSECS, 2020); and 'Smart Dog Caring System' (International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications, 2020). More recent contributions encompass 'Genetic Algorithm-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Path Planning in Dynamic Environments for Disaster Management' (2025), 'SPARROW: Smart Precision Agriculture Robot for Ridding of Weeds' (2024), 'Smart Mango - Smart System for Mango Plantation' (2023), and '"Hand Model" – A Static Sinhala Sign Language Translation Using Media-Pipe and SVM Compared with Hybrid Model of KNN, SVM and Random Forest Algorithms' (2023).