Supervision & Mentorship

I supervise and mentor PhD, Master’s, and undergraduate researcher students working on projects related to human-centred software engineering, requirements engineering, socio-technical systems, and empirical software engineering. My supervision emphasises rigorous empirical methods, ethical research practice, and translating research insights into practical tools and systems.

PhD Supervision

  • PhD Co-Supervisor: Investigating the Effects of Users’ Mental Models in Requirements Engineering and the Design of Secure Systems

Master’s Research Supervision

  • Master’s Minor Thesis Supervisor – RMIT University & Monash University.
  • Supervising postgraduate students on research-focused thesis projects aligned with human-centred software engineering, mental health triage apps, and requirements engineering  (ongoing)

Research Assistant Supervision

  • Supervised research assistants across multiple interdisciplinary projects involving empirical study design, data collection, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and research dissemination in human-centred software engineering and socio-technical systems.

Postgraduate/Undergraduate Capstone  and Research Project Supervision

  • Capstone Project Supervisor (COSC2410 / COSC2648) – RMIT University
    • Supervising final-year Bachelor of Software Engineering and Master of Information Technology students on software engineering capstone projects (2025, 2026).
  • Final-Year Software Engineering Research Project Supervisor (FIT4701 / FIT4702/ FIT4003) – Monash University
    • Supervised final-year students with Professor John Grundy on developing a practical tool/plugin to support performance appraisal for requirements engineers (2024).
    • Supervised a team of six students with Professor John Grundy on developing a Jira plugin to capture personality, motivation, performance, and satisfaction in requirements engineering tasks (2023).

External Adviser – Final Year Research Project (Honours Thesis)

  • Engaged in a research project in the capacity of an external adviser on “Virtual Garment Fitting for an Online Market Place for Females”. The project was carried out as a final-year undergraduate research project at the Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

Undergraduate Project Mentoring  and Coordination – University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka

  • Mentored undergraduate teams (six teams) in applying the software development life cycle to real-world client projects, including web-based and standalone systems.
  • Research coordinator for Bachelor of Science (Hons.) Information Systems final year research projects

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University, Australia

My Role: Teach and coordinate undergraduate and postgraduate courses, with responsibilities including course coordination, curriculum and assessment design, lecture and tutorial delivery, and evaluation of student work across written, discussion-based, and project-based assessments.

  • Subjects:
    • Software Requirements Engineering – Semester II 2025 | 2026 (Course Coordinator & Lecturer for Postgraduates and Undergraduates)
    • Python Programming Bootcamp (2510) – Semester I 2025 (First-year undergraduates)
    • Software Engineering Fundamentals (ISYS3413 / ISYS1118 / ISYS3475) – Semester I (Postgraduate tutorials)

Teaching Associate, Faculty of IT, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Australia

My Role: Delivered and supported on-campus and online tutorials for undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. Responsibilities included tutorial delivery, assessment of weekly activities, and evaluation of written, presentation-based, and video-based submissions.

  • Subjects:
    • FIT4005 / FIT5125 IT Research Methods – Semester I 2021–2023; Semester II 2022
    • FIT9130 Systems Analysis and Design – Semester I 2020–2021; Semester II 2020
Assistant Lecturer, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka
 
My role: Contributed to content designing and conducting lectures for BSc. Information Systems degree programme with senior lecturers for the below mentioned subjects. Designing and evaluating assignments and exam papers and working as a project coordinator for 2nd-year undergraduates’ software development projects, which involved managing 35 software development project teams.
  • Subjects:
    • IS 1103 Information Systems Management – Semester I 2019
    • IS 2102 Group Project I – Semester I 2019 (Project coordinator)
    • IS 2108 IT Project Management – Semester I 2019
    • IS 2114 Business Process Re-engineering – Semester I 2019
    • IS 4105 Advanced Concepts in Software Design and Development – Semester I 2019

Teaching Associate, University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka

My role: Conducting tutorials, and evaluating assignments for subjects in BSc. Information Systems degree and BSc. Computer Science degree programmes along with exam invigilation for undergraduate and masters’ examinations conducted by UCSC and project coordinator for final year undergraduate research project, which involved 6 research teams.

  • Subjects:
    • IS 1111 Software Engineering – Semester II 2018
    • IS 2108 IT Project Management – Semester I 2018
    • IS 4101 Final year project (Research) – Semester I & II 2018 (Project coordinator)
    • IS 4105 Advanced Concepts in Software Design and Development – Semester I 2018

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