Plenary Speakers -SICASH 2021

Dr. Kapila Bandara
Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Colombo.

Title of speech: “Future is not an encounter but a creation of Education”

Prof. Shironica P. Karunanayaka
Professor in Educational Technology, The Open University of Sri Lanka

Title of speech: “Converging Technology and Pedagogy in the Digital Age”

Dr. Lesley Dick
Manager English Language Training (ELT) Projects, British Council

Title of speech: “Lessons from lockdown : Online teacher training in Sri Lanka”

Dr. Reva Ramiah
English Language Development Coordinator, Senior Lecturer – Faculty of Science and Engineering, Curtin University

Title of speech: “Enabling learning through language across the curriculum – what every subject teacher needs to know”

Prof. Bala Rajaratnam
Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, USA.

Title of speech: “Mining Correlations from Big Data”

Prof. Saravanamuthu Vigneswaran
Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Title of speech: “A sustainable filtration system to remove arsenic from water in Vietnam”

Dr. Ian J. Tetlow
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Title of speech:”Starch: A Polyglucan with Versatile Functionality”

Prof. Gameela Samarasinghe
Department of Sociology, University of Colombo

Title of speech: “Beyond Psychologizing – Addressing Psychosocial Needs of People in Sri Lanka”

Dr. Asanga Gunawansa
Lead Legal Counsel for Colombo of Colombo Law Alliance
Visiting Professor – University of Moratuwa

Justice Saleem Marsoof PC
Non-Resident Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji
Former Justice of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka

Prof. S.S.P. Warnakulasuriya
Dean, Faculty of Nursing, University of Colombo

Title of speech: “Revitalizing nursing education and research for future trends in health care”