Erandi is a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of New South Wales, Canberra (UNSW Canberra). She completed her BSc (hons) in Computer Science at the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka with a first class. In 2009 she joined the University of Colombo School of Computing as an Assistant lecturer. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at UNSW Canberra in 2014. Her research interests include multi-agent systems, computational intelligence, multi-objective optimisation, human computer interfaces and, games for health.

Scholarships of $35,000 (AUD) are available for PhD students who achieved H1 /High Distinction in their UG program and/or have completed a Masters by Research. If you are interested, contact me at e.henekankanamge@adfa.edu.au

Grants

Barlow, MG; Lynar, TM; Moustafa, NM; Turnbull, BP; Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige, D; Hene Kankanamge, EL, Model Abstractions for Military Wargaming, $220,000, DSTG

Hene Kankanamge, EL, Actionable Cyber Security Intelligence from Big Data, $75,000, Industry Grant

Barlow, MG, Hene Kankanamge, EL, Turnbull, BP, Lynar, TM, Moustafa, NM (2020), Boardgame to Wargame - Game Design for Real-World AI-Enabled Analysis, $100,000, DSTG

Barlow, MG, Bednarz, TP, Hene Kankanamge, EL (2019) Simulation and Visualisation Using Data Farming for Joint Operating Concept Analysis, $350, 000, DSTG

Hene Kankanamge, E. (2018) Game Master: Improved player mental and physical wellbeing through a computational intelligence facilitator for digital game play, 2018 Rector’s Start-up Grant, $50,000

Barlow, M; Hene Kankanamge, E; Smith, S. (2017) Fun healthy & fit: computer game control via an exertion system, $75,000

Barlow, M; Hene Kankanamge, E; Kasmarik, K; Tang, J & DST Group. (2017) Trust in human-machine teaming through machine education: a skill-based agent design, DST-G, Competitive Evaluation Research Agreement, $70,000

Abbass, H., Anavatti, S., Arachchilage, N., Barlow, M., Garratt, M., Gulrez, T., Hene Kankanmage, E., Hu, J., Jovanoski, Z., Kasmarik, K., Leu, G., Niven, R., O'Neill, B., Pickering, M., Sarker, M., Sarker, R., Sidhu, H., Sidhu, L., Shafi, K., Towers, I., Tang, J., (2016) Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative, $42,200

Abbass, H; Anavatti, S; Barlow, M; Garratt, M; Hene Kankanamge, E; Kasmarik, K. (2016) Local State Scoring Relative to Global Goals for Self-organising Unmanned Systems in Contested RF Environments, Defence Science and Technology Group Collaborative Project, $50,000.

Professional Services

Secretary IEEE, CIS ACT Chapter: (2019-present)

Local Arrangements co-chair of the 33rd  Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2020 (AJCAI 2020) and a committee member of Canberra Artificial Intelligence week 2020

Membership Chair, IEEE CIS ACT Chapter: (2017)

Women in Engineering Coordinator, School of Engineering and IT, UNSW Canberra: (S2 2017)

Local Arrangement Chair, 20th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (2016)

Reviewer, IEEE Transaction on Games

Reviewer, The IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

Reviewer, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th edition

Program committee member of the 20th Asia Pacific Symposium on Intelligent and Evolutionary Systems (2016)

Research Students

Ahmed Aldysty (Joinly supervising with Dr Nour Moustafa), PhD Candidate (2022-

Anupama Arukgoda (Primary Supervisor), PhD Candidate (2021-)

Shuo Yang, (Co-supervising with Dr Michael Barlow and A/Prof Kathryn Kasmarik), PhD Candidate (2017-2022)

Dilini Samarasinghe, (Jointly-supervising with Dr Michael Barlow and A/Prof Kathryn Kasmarik), PhD Candidate (2017-2021)

Dulakshi Wannigamage, (Co-supervising with Dr Michael Barlow and A/Prof Kathryn Kasmarik), PhD Candidate (2017-2021)

Seham Hussein, (Co-supervising with Dr Michael Barlow), PhD Candidate (2017-)

Nima Salimi, (Co-supervising with Dr Michael Barlow), PhD Candidate (2017-2022)