Staff Profile
Sankalana Gunawardhana
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
Background
I am currently a PhD student with the AMBER research group and serve as a Postgraduate Teaching Assistant at Newcastle University. I obtained my MSc in Cyber Security with distinction from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT).
Research
My research primarily lies in the area of cyber security and low-level systems (kernels/operating systems).
Teaching
CSC1032 - Computer Systems Design and Architectures
CSC3632 - System and Network Security
CSC8015 - Cybersecurity
Publications
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Book Chapter
- Gunawardhana RS, Khakpour N. Security Threats and Challenges of Digital Twins-Enabled Self-adaptive Systems. In: Rebeca for Actor Analysis in Action: Essays Dedicated to Marjan Sirjani on the Occasion of Her 60th Birthday. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025, pp.390-405.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
- Gunawardhana, RS, Abeywardena, K. Irreversible Applications for Windows NT Systems. In: 19th International Conference on Security and Cryptography. 2022, Portugal: SciTePress.