Chinthake Wijesooriya

Dr. Chinthake Wijesooriya

Lecturer, Business and Technology (AI and Cybersecurity)

Details

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Chinthake obtained his Phd in Business Information Systems from the University of Queensland. He teaches data science related courses while conducting research about formal and informal online learning systems. He is experienced in teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students, supervising research students, industry engagements, and course coordination.

Prior to joining the academia, Chinthake worked in Sri Lanka, Singapore, New Zealand, and USA, primarily as an Information Technology consultant.

Awards & recognitions
Member - Association for Information Systems

Industry experience

  • Senior Software Engineer (1992-2005, - Online Learning Systems, Disaster Recovery, and System Implementation/Maintenance)
  • Industry engagement (2022-2023). Master students research project industry engagements.
  • Undergraduate final year project industry engagement 2022-2023.
  • Work Based Learning (Industry-based learning undergraduate program) 2022-2023.

Teaching interests

2023 to date - Digital Business Lecturer (RMIT Vietnam).

2021 to 2023 - Senior Lecturer/ Program Leader - Master of Data Science - HELP University, Malaysia.

2007 to 2021 - Casual Academic/ Associate Lecturer - University of Queensland.

* Undergraduate, postgraduate Teaching, Program coordination. 

Research interests

Information Systems
Online Learning System
Analytics

Artificial Intelligence 

Digital Transfomation