Dumindu Samaraweera

Dumindu Samaraweera is an assistant research professor at the University of South Florida. Dumindu received his BS in computer systems and networking from Curtin University, Australia; a BS in information technology from Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka; and an MS in enterprise application development from Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He obtained his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of South Florida (USF), concentrating his research on cybersecurity and data science. His doctoral dissertation, “Security and Privacy Enhancement Technologies in the Deep Learning Era,” addresses the privacy and security issues identified in today’s data-driven applications and provides in-depth solutions to mitigate such problems. Over the years, he has worked with multiple large-scale US Department of Defense-funded cybersecurity research projects. Before joining USF, he worked in the industry as a software engineer/electrical engineer for more than six years, managing and deploying enterprise-level solutions.