Rate My Professor Lakmini Malasinghe

Dr. Lakmini Malasinghe serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). Her academic qualifications include a Doctor of Philosophy obtained in July 2020 from the University of the West of Scotland, a Master of Science in 2015 from the University of Moratuwa, a Master of Engineering in 2009 from the University of Nottingham, CTHE from the University of Colombo, and SEDA from the UK. She joined SLIIT in February 2012 as Assistant Lecturer, advanced to Lecturer in July 2015, Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade) in September 2020, and Assistant Professor in April 2023. From 1st July to 31st December 2023, she was Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Previously, she was Lecturer (Contract) from September 2010 to January 2012 and Temporary Instructor from July 2009 to August 2010 at the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa.

Dr. Malasinghe's research focuses on remote patient monitoring, contactless bio-signal detection and monitoring, technology for healthcare, digital signal and image processing, signal processing for forensic applications, optical fiber communication and lasers, and biomedical engineering. Among her major publications are the journal articles "Remote Patient Monitoring: a comprehensive study" (Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Springer, vol.10, 2019), "A comparative study of common steps in video-based remote heart rate detection methods" (Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, vol.207, 2022), "Machine Learning-Based Indoor Localization System with Human-Computer Interaction System" (JAET, vol.2, Issue 1, 2023), and "Smart Health Monitoring System" (JAET, vol.2, Issue 2, 2023). She has also presented conference papers including "Modeling of Optical Carrier Recovery using Four Wave Mixing Technique for Binary Phase Shift Keying Systems" (MERCon 2015), "Remote Heart Rate Extraction Using Microsoft KinectTM V2.0" (ICBBT 2018), "A Multifunctional Communication System for Differently Abled People" (SICET 2023), and "Comparative Study of Face Tracking Algorithms for Remote Photoplethysmography" (ICECET 2023). Dr. Malasinghe received the Erasmus Mundus Action 2: SmartLink Scholarship in 2015 as a recipient for her doctoral studies.