Research Manager
Expertise are in ICT system design and actionable research working collaboratively with multiple national and international stakeholders applying the academic and industrial experience in being a valued entrepreneur that recognizes new developments in technology and anticipates trends in order to offer clients the latest available ICT services.
Nuwan is the Project Director for LIRNEasia’s mobile health-related project: Evaluating a Real-Time Biosurveillance Program: A Pilot Project. Previously, he was the Researcher/Project Manager for LIRNEasia’s disaster related project Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination in Sri Lanka (also termed as the HazInfo project). As a Senior Researcher at LIRNEasia, he has begun developing an abstract framework for comparing and contrasting early-warning systems with an aim towards classifying early-warning systems.
Present research interests are geared towards developing early warning systems and information exchange platforms for emergency communication such use of HF spectrum and FM Radio Data Services for emergency data exchange, working on infrastructure that is beyond the standard Internet Protocol or Cellular Networks. Further, experimentations hinge on adoption of interoperable content standards such as Emergency Data Exchange Language and Common Alerting Protocol for communicating emergency and risk information for all-hazards all-media.
He is also the Director of Spot On Solutions, which provides specialized affordable “service type” information technology enterprise planning solutions using Free and Open Source Software, especially targeting the small and medium industries in Sri Lanka. FOSS initiatives have much collaboration with the Lanka Software Foundation. At present, he is a member of the Project Management Committee of the Sahana Disaster Management Framework playing a key role in the developments on Messaging/Alerting Module.
Nuwan is advising the Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s largest NGO on the use of Information Communication Technology for Community based risk communications such as the use of the Mobile Service Platform for Citizen Journalism.
He was a founding member of the post-tsunami-work volunteer group: Community Focused Disaster Response, an ongoing project focused on giving the people in Komari, of the East-coast of Sri Lanka, a better life.
Previously he worked as a Software Architect/Operation Research Analyst for Infocraft Limited, Business Analyst for Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (Colombo, Sri Lanka), Analyst Programmer for APS Healthcare (Montana, USA), Instructor in Operations Research at the Department of Mathematical Sciences (University of Montana, USA) and an Analyst Programmer at the Montana World Trade Center (Montana, USA).
Expertise are in ICT system design and actionable research working collaboratively with multiple national and international stakeholders applying the academic and industrial experience in being a valued entrepreneur that recognizes new developments in technology and anticipates trends in order to offer clients the latest available ICT services.
Nuwan is the Project Director for LIRNEasia’s mobile health-related project: Evaluating a Real-Time Biosurveillance Program: A Pilot Project. Previously, he was the Researcher/Project Manager for LIRNEasia’s disaster related project Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination in Sri Lanka (also termed as the HazInfo project). As a Senior Researcher at LIRNEasia, he has begun developing an abstract framework for comparing and contrasting early-warning systems with an aim towards classifying early-warning systems.
Present research interests are geared towards developing early warning systems and information exchange platforms for emergency communication such use of HF spectrum and FM Radio Data Services for emergency data exchange, working on infrastructure that is beyond the standard Internet Protocol or Cellular Networks. Further, experimentations hinge on adoption of interoperable content standards such as Emergency Data Exchange Language and Common Alerting Protocol for communicating emergency and risk information for all-hazards all-media.
He is also the Director of Spot On Solutions, which provides specialized affordable “service type” information technology enterprise planning solutions using Free and Open Source Software, especially targeting the small and medium industries in Sri Lanka. FOSS initiatives have much collaboration with the Lanka Software Foundation. At present, he is a member of the Project Management Committee of the Sahana Disaster Management Framework playing a key role in the developments on Messaging/Alerting Module.
Nuwan is advising the Sarvodaya, Sri Lanka’s largest NGO on the use of Information Communication Technology for Community based risk communications such as the use of the Mobile Service Platform for Citizen Journalism.
He was a founding member of the post-tsunami-work volunteer group: Community Focused Disaster Response, an ongoing project focused on giving the people in Komari, of the East-coast of Sri Lanka, a better life.
Previously he worked as a Software Architect/Operation Research Analyst for Infocraft Limited, Business Analyst for Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (Colombo, Sri Lanka), Analyst Programmer for APS Healthcare (Montana, USA), Instructor in Operations Research at the Department of Mathematical Sciences (University of Montana, USA) and an Analyst Programmer at the Montana World Trade Center (Montana, USA).
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