Ishara Dissanayake received his BSc in Information Technology (2015) and MSc in Network Management and Cloud Computing (2017) from Middlesex University, UK. He is currently pursuing an MPhil in Computer Science at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, where his research focuses on developing machine-learning-based techniques to detect battery-exhaustion (Denial-of-Sleep) attacks in low-power Internet of Things (IoT) sensor networks. He is a Lecturer (on contract) in the Department of Computer Engineering at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. His broader research interests include Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), and Intrusion Detection Systems.