Professor Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva (Dean of SDS)
Background:
Professor Liyanage Chandratilak De Silva received a BSc Eng (Hons) degree from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 1985; an MPhil degree from The Open University of Sri Lanka in 1989; and MEng and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He was with the University of Tokyo, Japan, from 1989 to 1995. From April 1995 to March 1997, he pursued his postdoctoral research as a researcher at ATR (Advanced Telecommunication Research) Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. In March 1997, he joined the National University of Singapore as a lecturer, where he was an assistant professor until June 2003. He was with Massey University, New Zealand, from 2003 to 2007. Currently he is a professor of engineering and the deputy dean of the Faculty of Integrated Technologies https://fit.ubd.edu.bn at the University of Brunei Darussalam.
Liyanage has published over 160 technical papers in these areas in international conferences, journals, and Japanese national conventions and holds one Japanese national patent, which was successfully sold to Sony Corporation Japan for commercial utilization, and he holds 1 US and 1 Brunei patent. Liyanage’s works have been cited as one of the pioneering work in the bimodal (audio and video signal based) emotion recognition by many researchers. His papers so far have been cited by more than 2000 times (according to scholar.google.com) with an h-index of 20.
He received the Best Student Paper Award from SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) for an outstanding paper contribution to the International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) in 1995. He also received the National University of Singapore, Department of ECE Teaching Commendation Award in 2001 and 2002 consecutively.
He is a senior member of IEEE USA and the interim chair of the IEEE Brunei Darussalam Subsection. He was the General Chair of the 4th International Conference Computational Intelligence and Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS2007) held in New Zealand. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=utF5BG0AAAAJ&hl=en
Research Interests:
Signal Processing (Speech & Image), Internet of Things (IoT) Sensor Integration, Power System Analysis
Dr Rosyzie Anna Awg Haji Mohd Apong (Deputy Dean of SDS)
Background:
Educational Background
PhD in Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK (present)
Master of Science in Multimedia and Internet Computing, Loughborough University.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, University of Strathclyde, UK. BTEC Higher National Diploma in Computer Studies, Brunei
Teaching
Computer Science Department, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Introduction to Computer Systems and Technology, Algorithm and Data Structures (2004 – 2011)
Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, World Wide Web and Applications, Programming Fundamentals, Programming for Scientists, Information Retrieval (2015 – present)
Training Conducted
Tutors Professional Development in Education (24th January 2007 – 21st February 2007)
Seminar on Education and Professionalism (27th July – 6th August 2005)
Brunei Android Codefest Workshop (15th and 29th February 2008)
UBD Free/Libre Open Source Software Training for Teachers (2007)
MOD Free/Libre Open Source Software Training (2008)
Employment
Lecturer (December 2006 till present)
Tutor, Universiti Brunei Darussalam (October 2004 – December 2006)
IT Tutor, civil service Institute (February 2001–February 2002)
Daily Paid Teacher, Ministry of Education (May 2000-August 2000)
TAP Clerk, Ministry of Finance (February 2000 – May 2000)