Prof Saman Halgamuge is a Fellow of IEEE, a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of School of Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering and a Distinguished Speaker/Lecturer on Computational Intelligence (2019-2021). He served as Director/Head, Research School of Engineering of the Australian National University (ANU) (2016-18), a member of Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts for Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences (2016-18), the founding Director of the PhD training centre Melbourne India Postgraduate Program (MIPP) of University of Melbourne and Associate Dean (2013-15) and Assistant Dean (2008-13) in International Engagement in the Melbourne School of Engineering.
He is an honorary Professor of ANU.
Research:AI including Unsupervised Learning focusing on applications in Mechanical Engineering, Energy and Bioengineering.
Grants, contracts and consultancies:2 NHMRC Project Grants: Identification of haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell subpopulations (2017-20) - S Naik, M. Richie and S. Halgamuge [with Walter and Eliza Hall Institute], 4 ARC Discovery Grants: Near-unsupervised computational methods, ARC Discovery (2015-17)-S. Halgamuge, A. Hsu, M. Niranjan and S.L. Tang [with Academia Sinica, University of Southampton and Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences], 9 ARC Linkage Grants with Industry: Optimisation of shallow geothermal systems, ARC Linkage (2017-20)- G. Narsilio, L. Aye, S. Halgamuge, R. Choudhary and K. Woodman [with Cambridge University], 3 ARC Special Research Initiative grants as CI, 14 other external research grants: AIC grant on Energy (2016-17), Peter Mac (2016-17), POSCO South Korea (2014-15), Robert Bosch Germany (Multiple contracts 1999-2007).
Keynotes (a selection): Applied Machine Learning Days (Lausanne, 2019), 8th IEEE ICPES (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2018), 5th IEEE EMBS-BES (Kuching, Malaysia, 2018), 5th IEEE ISCMI (Nairobi, Kenya, 2018), IEEE ICCE (Colombo, 2018), 13th IEEE ICCS, (Trivandrum, 2017), 16th InCoB (Shenzhen, China, 2017), 26th IJCAI: Workshop BAI (Melbourne, 2017), ICOCB 2017, (Jakarta, 2017), EBDTS (Melbourne, 2016), ICIT (Melbourne, 2016), 3rd ISCBI (Bali, 2015), 6th CSBio (Bangkok, 2015), 11th ICIUS (Bali, 2015), 9th IEEE ICCE (Vancouver, 2014), ISCBI (New Delhi, 2013), IEEE ICIAfS (Beijing, 2012)
International Engagement: Honorary Professor of Universities ITB (Indonesia),Tong Ji and Hebei (China). Previously member of Research Advisory Committee of UTP (Malaysia), Visiting review committee of CUHK, and Honorary Professor of Universities NTU Singapore, Malaya, Colombo and Peradeniya.
Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/saman-halgamuge-4a49508
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Distinguished Lecturer/Speaker
DYASON Fellowship 2013-2014
U21 Fellowships for his capacity to inspire, extend and enthuse their students.
Leadership Prize (5 awarded world-wide)
To study Dipl.Ing. at TU Darmstadt
FIEEE - Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Credentials
Positions
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Honorary Member
ANU Energy Change Institute
Honorary Professor
Australian National University, Research School of Electrical, Energy and Materials Engineering
Member
Distinguished Visiting Committee of Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Fellow Of Institute Of Electrical And Electronic Engineers (Ieee)
Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Member Of The Panel
Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts for Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences
Editorial Board Member
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II
International Member
Research Advisory Council of University of Technology PETRONAS, Malaysia
Associate Editor Of Editorial Board Of Journal Softcomputing
Specialty Co-Chielf Editor (Mechatronics), Frontiers Journal of Mechanical Engineering
Editorial Board Member
Associate Editor, Applied Mathematics (Hindawi)
Associate Editor - Editorial Board Of Journal Bmc Bioinformatics
Associate Editor - Editorial Board of Journal BMC Bioinformatics
Associate Editor- Editorial Board Of Journal Control And Intelligent Systems
Associate Editor- Editorial Board of Journal Control and Intelligent Systems
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Electrical Engineering)
Darmstadt University Of Technology
Master of Science (Data Engineering)
Darmstadt University Of Technology
Bachelor of Science (Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering)
University of Moratuwa