Dr. Namal Arosha S Senanayake, Senior member/IEEE is an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Faculty Research Training Coordinator at the University of Brunei, the Member of ICT Focus group of Brunei Economic Development Board, National body under His Majesty, and the Leader of Integrated Motion Analysis System (IMAS) Research project and Intelligently Interactive Cybernetics Universal Theatre (I²CUTE) research project under Science & Technology Funds in Brunei. He is also leader of Virtual Interfacing Technology Adaptation Lab (VITAL) at Monash University Sunway Campus. His research interests include Interaction Oriented Design; Modelling, Simulation and Animation; Biologically Inspired Robotic Devices (BIRD); Virtual Technologies; Softcomputing(Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms); Brain-Machine Interface(BMI); Human Movement Science; wireless sensor integration and fusion. He has published over 100 scholarly peer reviewed articles, authored 2 books, edited 4 books and authored 10 book chapters in Springer and Taylor & Francis.

Dr. Arosha is editorial board member and associate editors of several journals, in particular IEEE Transactions. He served as the general chairman of unique International Conference (IEEE CITISIA), steering committee members, program co-chairs, organizing co-chairs and program members of over 40 conferences and workshops. He is the Co-Research Cluster Leader of Creative Industry Research Cluster. In recent years, he has led over 10 large grants and projects with a total of budget over S$ 5Million, funded by Monash University Research Funds, Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) Malaysia, Sports Bio-Mechanics Centre, University of Brunei, Science & Technology Funds, Brunei, National Instruments, USA and government/industrial partners. He also leads two large global research projects of utilizing advanced IT technologies jointly with Gifu University, Japan, Marquette  University, USA, Monash University Sunway Campus and Um-Alqura University, Saudi Arabia. He is a Senior Member of IEEE together Robotics and Automation Society.

1.       1.       Patents:

          FORCE SENSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REAL-TIME CONTROL AND VISUALISATION OF DATA FROM A FORCE SENSING DEVICE (Patent filed with Patent number: PI 2008516)

2.       Authored Book:

Bio-Interfacing Devices, S. M. N. Arosha Senanayake, Research Publishing Services, ISBN 978-981-08-2315-3, Singapore, 2012.

Peer Reviewed International Scholarly published Journal Papers:

3.      Alpha Agape Gopalai, S.M.N. Arosha Senanayake, A Wearable Real-Time Intelligent Posture Corrective System Using Vibrotactile Feedback, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Vol 16, issue 5, Page(s): 827- 834, October 2011.

4.      SMN Arosha Senanayake, Darwin Gouwanda, "Identifying gait asymmetry using gyroscopes—A cross-correlation and Normalized Symmetry Index approach", Journal of Biomechanics, Elsevier, Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 972-978, March 2011.

5.      C. Senanayake and S.M.N. Arosha Senanayake, “Computational Intelligent Gait phase detection system to identify Pathological Gait”, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine , Vol. 14, No.5, September 2010, Page(s) 1173 – 1179.

1.        Recipient of Pro-Vice Chancellor’s  Award for Excellence in Research in three consecutive years; 2008, 2009 and 2010 at Monash University.

2.        Member/Educational Technological Committee, eEducation Centre on the analysis, design and implementation of cross and multidisciplinary innovative course/units at Monash University, Australia during 2008-2010.

3.        Co-ordinator of MoU between National Instruments, USA and Monash University during 2006-2010.

4.        Member/Steering group, strategic and sustainable academic development plan project under Higher Education Development Unit (HEDU), Monash University- Clayton Campus, Australia during 2006-2010.

5.        Course Unit Leader of TRC4100 – Bio-Interfacing Devices, TRC4900 – Real Time Embedded Systems and ECE4033-Industrialization Processes.