Suchinthi Fernando
Assistant Teaching Professor of Library and Information Science
Faculty
Biography
Suchinthi Fernando's ongoing research is in many areas of information technology and information science, including information security. Her objectives are to educate and guide students in computer sciences and information security, enabling them to recognize, research, and provide practical solutions to real-life problems. Her teaching philosophy is to teach her students to learn how to learn—to develop in them the capability of seeing beyond the surface and gleaning the knowledge embedded deep within what they see and hear, and thus help inculcate in her students this positive attitude toward learning, and thereby help them achieve their goals.
She drew funding during her tenure at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and also obtained the Monbukagakusho Japanese Government Scholarship throughout her graduate studies at Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan, to conduct in-depth research and publish her work in multiple journals, and as book chapters, as well as present her work at international conferences in many countries.
Fernando teaches many graduate technology courses for the Master's of Information degree program, including Information Security Management, Database Design and Management, Foundations of Data Science, and Computational Reasoning, while also working on building the curriculum for the program's Data Science concentration.