Dr. Shyam Reyal

Dr. Shyam Reyal

Assistant Professor

FACULTY OF COMPUTING | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

  • Director
    • SLIIT-Innovate
  • Assistant Professor
    • Department of IT, Faculty of Computing
  • Lecturer in Charge
    • Human-Computer Interaction (IT3060)
    • Visual Analytics and User Experience Design (IT4031)
    • Software Engineering Concepts (COMP3003) – Curtin
    • Object Oritented Software Engineering (COMP2003) – Curtin
    • Software Engineering Practices (IT5030)
    • Rapid Application Development (SE5100)
  • Consulting Lecturer
    • Industrial Placement Module (IT3110)
  • Principal Investigator
    • Sinhala Mobile Text Entry Comparison (SMTEC)
  • Co-Investigator
    • Culturally Sensitive Autism Assessment Tool (CSAAT)
  • Project Supervisor
    • MPhil – 5 projects (2020-)
    • MSc – 3 projects (2021-22)
    • BSc 4th year – 6 projects (2021-22)
    • Curtin Capstone – 4 projects (2022-)
  • Staff Advisor
    • SLIIT CodeFest Algothon Workshop Series and Competition, 2020-2021
    • SLIIT Xtreme Competition, 2021
    • IEEE Xtreme Competition in SLIIT, 2021
  • Previous
    • Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade), Department of IT, Faculty of Computing (03/2020-02/2022)
    • Convener – Computing for Inclusive and Equitable Society (CIES) Research Group (06/2021-10/2021)
    • Group-Chair – SLIIT-HCI Research Group (04/2020 – 06/2021)
    • Member of Faculty Research Committee (10/2020-04/2021)
Academic Qualifications
  • PhD in Computer Science – University of St Andrews, UK
    • Specialising in Human-Computer Interaction
  • B.Sc. (Hons) Eng – University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
    • Specialising in Computer Science & Engineering
Honors and Awards
  • Supervised B.Sc. Y4 projects selected for
    • NBQSA 2021 – Merit Award
    • Imagine Cup 2022 – World Finals
Interests
  • Human-Computer Interaction (primary)
  • E-Learning and Education
  • Software Engineering
  • Workplace Process Automation
  • Productivity Enhancement
Memberships
  • General Secretary
    • ACM SIGCHI Colombo Chapter (2021)
My Publications

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Shyam Reyal, Vijani Piyawardana, Dilani Kaveendri   A Story of Two Surveys: For the Advancement of Sinhalese Mobile Text Entry Research  in International Conference in Advancements in Computing,  year 2020,  Malabe, Sri Lanka,    IEEE Sri Lanka,    10-11 December 2020,
  • Thilmi Kuruppu, Janani Tharmaseelan, Chamari Silva, Udara Srimath S. Samaratunge Arachchillage, Kalpani Manathunga, Shyam Reyal, Nuwan Kodagoda and Thilini Jayalath   Source Code based Approaches to Automate Marking in Programming Assignments  in 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Education,  year 2020,      SCITEPRESS,
  • Janani Tharmaseelan, Dr. Kalpani Manathunga, Dr. Shyam Reyal, Dr. Dharshana Kasthurirathna, Tharsika Thurairasa   Revisit of automated marking techniques for programming assignments  in IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference,  year 2021,  Vienna, Austria,    IEEE,
  • Liyanage A.N;A.G.A. Madhushanka D;U.M. Uduwara L;W.M.S. D Jayarathne;Samanthi Siriwardana;Shyam Reyal;W.K. Mithsara M   ScheduleME – Smart Digital Personal Assistant for Automatic Priority Based Task Scheduling and Time Management  in 2nd Global Conference for Advancement in Technology (GCAT),  year 2021,  Bangalore, India,  pp.1-6,  IEEE,      14/11/2021