Prof. Gihan Dias of the Computer Science and Engineering Dept. was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka.

Prof. Gihan Dias of the Computer Science and Engineering Dept. was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka. The fellowship was awarded at the National IT Conference inauguration held on the 2nd of October.

Fellowship of the CSSL is a special honour recognizing lifetime achievement and service to the society, and only three persons were bestowed the Fellowship this year.
Prof. Dias graduated from the University of Moratuwa in 1985 and was awarded a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from The University of California, Davis in 1992. In addition to being a Professor in The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa and The Director of International Relations at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, he serves as the Domain Registrar of the LK Domain Registry and as an advisor to TechCERT, Sri Lanka’s premier information security body. He has expertise in several areas of computing, including computer networking, language technologies, e-learning, security, Internet identity and personal cloud. He has assisted many public and private organizations to build, secure, and make best use of their computer systems.
He has served as a Trustee of the Internet Society from 2014 to 2017. He was inducted to the Internet Hall of Fame in 2013 and awarded with the SEARCC ICT Professional of the year award in 2017.