A former Director of the University of Colombo School of Computing, I have also served as a Visiting Professor at the Management & Science University of Malaysia (MSU), visiting Faculty at the Umea University of Sweden and Dean of the Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka. I am a past ERCIM Fellow in France’s INRIA Labs and a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar at Carnegie-Mellon University, USA. After serving in various capacities at the UGC, MoHE, NSF, ICTA, LEARN, ISOC, IOI, SLSI, LSF, LKNIC and SLASSCOM, more recently, I have been on national committees for upscaling the talent pool in data science, for setting up of a Biotechnology park, for forming a National Export Strategy in the ICT sector, and for developing a policy for promoting Knowledge Services. My primary research interests are in Computational Linguistics including Machine Translation, and particularly in techniques employing statistical methods and machine learning using large data sets. My research interests expand naturally to Artificial Intelligence and more recently, Bioinformatics.