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Dr Thilina Halloluwa

Lecturer /Senior Lecturer (Ele

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
t.halloluwa@uq.edu.au

Overview

Dr. Thilina Halloluwa is a Teaching Focused Lecturer in the Human-Centred Computing discipline. He is a SEDA accredited educator with over 15 years of academic and industry experience, both locally and internationally. As an applied researcher, he is passionate about extending research to have non-negative real-world impact. He received a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from Queensland University of Technology , Australia and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

Research Interests

  • Education for all – Attempting to broaden the reach of Education through technology
    Often times, people think technology in education means that the teachers will be replaced by machines. However, the impacts a real human beings could have on one’s learning, the social experiences that lead to better education, cannot be replicated by any technology. This research project focus on augmenting this social/collaborative learning experience between students and teachers and exploring how diffract technologies could make students better at learning and teachers better at communicating knowledge.
  • Human Money Interaction: Designing for Personal Finances
    The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become more prominent in the corporate world. How do we ensure that human well-being is prioritized when we adopt and accelerate the deployment of such powerful technology, especially within the financial services industry where trust is paramount? How do we develop technology in a responsible way while continuing to innovate? How these technologies can be used to support underserved communities? How can they enhance the existing practices/cultural values? These are the questions I try to find answers for with this project.
  • Smart Agro – A Smart Agriculture Project
    The world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion before 2050. The United Nations claim that the food production has to increase by 70% just to keep pace. They have also listed several barriers to fulfill this imperative. The Smart Agro project focus on finding solutions pass those barriers.
  • Metrix – Assisting managers to make accurate estimates on the Software Projects
    Effort estimation is where software teams evaluate the relative size of a task or product backlog item based on how much effort it will require to finish. According to the University of Oxford, more than half of all major IT projects with beginning costs over $15 million massively exceed their budgets. In addition, the cost overruns increase by 15% for every additional year that a project is set to continue, making it more probable that it would go over budget and schedule. Activities involving effort estimation are crucial to the planning and managing of a software project to ensure its timely and cost-effective completion. This project aims at supporting engineers make better decisions on their software project estimations.

Qualifications

  • Doctoral (Research) of Computer-Human Interaction, Queensland University of Technology

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  • MangoDB - A TJC Mango dataset for deep-learning-based on classification and detection in precision agriculture

    Jayaweera, Sasadara, Sewwandi, Piyumika, Tharaka, Dimuthi, Pallewatta, Pandula, Halloluwa, Thilina, Wickramasinghe, Manjusri, Karunanayaka, Kasun and Arachchi, Samantha Mathara (2024). MangoDB - A TJC Mango dataset for deep-learning-based on classification and detection in precision agriculture. 2024 4th International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC), Belihuloya, Sri Lanka, 21-24 February 2024. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icarc61713.2024.10499698

  • Effective identification of nitrogen fertilizer demand for paddy cultivation using UAVs

    Illesinghe, Rusiri, Arachchi, Shayan Wickrama, Kavikarage, Heshan, Karunarathna, Anupama, Karunanayaka, Kasun, Halloluwa, Thilina and Rathnayake, Upul (2023). Effective identification of nitrogen fertilizer demand for paddy cultivation using UAVs. IECON 2023- 49th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, Singapore, 16-19 October 2023. New York, NY USA: IEEE Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/iecon51785.2023.10312483

  • Virtual reality based approaches for post ischemic stroke rehabilitation: current practices and future perspectives

    Wickramasinghe, Buddhi, Karunanayaka, Kasun, Halloluwa, Thilina and Cheok, Adrian David (2023). Virtual reality based approaches for post ischemic stroke rehabilitation: current practices and future perspectives. 2023 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC), Belihuloya, Sri Lanka, 23-24 February 2023. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icarc57651.2023.10145731

  • Multisensory augmented reality

    Karunanayaka, Kasun, Nijholt, Anton, Halloluwa, Thilina, Ranasinghe, Nimesha, Wickramasinghe, Manjusri and Vyas, Dhaval (2021). Multisensory augmented reality. Multisensory Augmented Reality, Virtual, 30 Aug 2021. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_77

  • A rule based approach to minimize false-positive declines in Electronic Card Not Present financial transactions using feature engineering techniques

    Delgolla, Madhushika, Halloluwa, Thilina and Rathnayake, Anuradha (2021). A rule based approach to minimize false-positive declines in Electronic Card Not Present financial transactions using feature engineering techniques. 2021 21st International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICter), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2-3 December 2021. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/icter53630.2021.9774815

  • Dhana Labha: A financial management application to underbanked communities in Rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina and Vyas, Dhaval (2019). Dhana Labha: A financial management application to underbanked communities in Rural Sri Lanka. INTERACT 2019: Human-Computer Interaction, Paphos, Cyprus, 2–6 September 2019. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-29384-0_45

  • Value for money: co-designing with underbanked women from rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Bandara, Pradeepa, Usoof, Hakim and Vyas, Dhaval (2018). Value for money: co-designing with underbanked women from rural Sri Lanka. 30th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction, OzCHI 2018, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 4-7 December 2018. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3292147.3292157

  • Designing for financial literacy: co-design with children in rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Usoof, Hakim, Bandara, Pradeepa, Brereton, Margot and Hewagamage, Priyantha (2017). Designing for financial literacy: co-design with children in rural Sri Lanka. 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Mumbai, India, 25-29 September 2017. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_21

  • Gamifying mathematics for primary students in rural Sri Lanka

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Usoof, Hakim, Hewagamage, K. P. and Sahama, Tony (2016). Gamifying mathematics for primary students in rural Sri Lanka. 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-27 October 2016. New York, United States: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/2971485.2971522

  • Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Sahama, Tony, Hewagamage, K. P. and Usoof, Hakim (2016). Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students. 15th International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 24- 25 August 2015. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICTER.2015.7377706

  • Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students

    Halloluwa, Thilina, Vyas, Dhaval, Sahama, Tony, Hewagamage, K. P. and Usoof, Hakim (2015). Interaction design for tablet based edutainment systems for mathematical education of primary students. Fifteenth International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), Colombo, Sri Lanka, 24-25 August 2015. New York, NY USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICTER.2015.7377706

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