Pratheepan Yogarajah has been a Lecturer in Computing Science at Ulster University since January 2016. He joined the School of Computing and Intelligent System at Ulster University as a teaching assistant in September 2007. He also worked for over five years as a Research Associate at Ulster University. Previously, he worked in Sri Lanka for more than five years, first as an Assistant Lecturer in Computer Science and then as a Lecturer in Computer Science. Yogarajah obtained a first-class honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 2001 and an MPhil degree in Computer Vision from Oxford Brookes University, UK, in 2006. He obtained his PhD from Ulster University, UK, in 2015. He is a member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and a Member of IEEE. Yogarajah was the recipient of the Oxford Brookes University HMGCC scholarship award in 2005. He was also a co-recipient of the Proof of Principle (PoP) award from Ulster University in 2012 and the Proof of Concept (PoC) from Invest Northern Ireland (Invest NI) in 2013. His research interests include biometrics, computer vision, image processing, steganography and digital watermarking, and machine learning. He has patents filed and has published more than 20 papers in international conferences, books, and journals.
Ulster University
Derry, Derry and Strabane, UK