Gihan Herath
Gihan Herath
Senior Lecturer and Module Leader
Faculty Information Technology
Profile
Gihan has been working at ICBT since 2009 lecturing in the field of IT. After completing his degree in BSc in IT he worked in the software industry and was employed for about 3 years before joining ICBT. He has obtained MSc in Computer science from the University of Peradeniya.
Gihan is currently working in the capacity of a Senior lecturer (Grad II) and also the module leader for Computational intelligence, Computational thinking, Service-oriented computing, and software engineering dissertation and has taught many undergraduate and postgraduate modules at ICBT in various programmes. He is currently teaching Computational thinking, Mobile application development, Web application development, Service-oriented computing, Database design and development, Building for Web, Research methods, Team software development, Mobile and Web Technologies, Software engineering, and Business information systems dissertation. Within ICBT, Gihan is a member of the new programme development committee . Gihan’s research interests are in the field of
- Game based learning
- Machine and deep learning
- Immersive technologies in education and business
- Web technologies
- HCI
Publications
Conferences proceedings
~ Rathnamalala N.A.S.I.B.P.K , Herath K.M.G.K. (2021).Sign language to Sinhala language speech conversation to enhance the quality of communication between hearing impaired and the rest of the community Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Research Symposium . Colombo: International College of Business and Technology
~ Fazry M. A, Herath K.M.G.K. (2019). Holistic approach to overcome video game addiction Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Research Symposium (pp. 313-318). Colombo: International College of Business and Technology.
~ Dharmasiri J.M.S.R, Herath K.M.G.K. (2019). Computational intelligence for movie editing Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Research Symposium (pp. 223-227). Colombo: International College of Business and Technology.
~ Shiraz M.S, Herath K.M.G.K. (2019). Using augmented reality to reduce the buyer hesitation when buying furniture and interior decor in E-commerce platform Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Research Symposium (pp. 233-238). Colombo: International College of Business and Technology.
~ Shiraz M.S, Herath K.M.G.K. (2019). Personalized Object Recognizer for Visually Impaired Individuals Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Research Symposium (pp. 255-260). Colombo: International College of Business and Technology.
Other research activities
~ Game Based Approach to Teach SQL for Generation Z Students in Higher Education.
~ Machine learning approach to enhance the experience for beginners of the Sinhala alphabet.
Contact
Call: (+94) 814 482000 / Ext: 2016
Email: gihan@icbtcampus.edu.lk
