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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

  • 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.

  • 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.