DAMITH C. RAJAPAKSE

Associate Professor :
School of Computing , National University of Singapore
Computing 1, 13 Computing Drive, Singapore 117417

Fellow : NUS Teaching Academy

Former Fellow : College of Alice & Peter Tan, University Town

Office: (COM2#2-57)
damith[at]comp.nus.edu.sg
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~damithch
Tel: (office) +65 6516 4359, Fax: +65 6779 4580

Projects

	PowerPointLabs is a free PowerPoint plugin for creating awesome slides with less effort. Generate animations, spotlights, narrations, captions, zoom effects, and more ... Download from http://PowerPointLabs.info
	TEAMMATES is a peer feedback/evaluation tool for student teams. It is online and free for use by educators and students. More info at http://teammatesv4.appspot.com

Books

Free copy available at
here

Free copy available here

Available in NUS CO-OP

(Chapter author only)
Available from Amazon

Available from Amazon

Out of print

AWARDS

University Annual Teaching Excellence Honor Roll - Since AY12/13
University Annual Teaching Excellence Award AY11/12
Faculty Teaching Honor Roll - Since AY12/13
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY11/12
University Annual Teaching Excellence Award AY10/11
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY10/11
University Annual Teaching Excellence Award AY09/10
Faculty Teaching Excellence Award AY09/10

Recent Invited Talks

"Tips for turning student projects into real software products" 1er. Congreso Internacional de TI de las Universidades Tecnológicas, Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico, June 2011
"Benefits and drawbacks of releasing student projects for public use", World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Conference, August 2010, Singapore
"Mobile applications of tomorrow: trends, opportunities, challenges, and solutions", 2nd International Conference on Systems and Informatics Engineering, Peru, Oct 2008

Teaching

FMC1202 - The wonderfully weird world of software (recent past)
CS1281 - C++ to Java (several years ago)
GEM1909 - (Junior Seminar at University Town) Technology and Human Progress (past)
CS2103, CS2103T - Software engineering (current)
TE3201 - (under BTech program) Software engineering (current)
CS3215 - Software engineering project (past)
CP3108B (Mozilla) - Academic advisor (past)
CP3106 (Indepdendent Project) - Academic advisor
CP3200 (SIP under GSoC) - Academic advisor (current)
CP3281&2 - Thematic Systems Project I & II(current)
CS4217 - Software Development Technologies (past)

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Services

Conference program committees served recently: CSEE&T (since 2011), SEKE (since 2009), SEDE 2011, ITNG SE education track (since 2010), ICIAfS 2008, ICIIS 2011
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Research

I'm interested in all things related to Software engineering in general. In particular, Software engineering education, Software maintenance, Software reuse, and Software development best practices.
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Education

PhD (Software Engineering) at School of Computing, National Uni. of Singapore
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Industry Experience

[Jun 02 - present] IT consultant, open source developer
[Jul 01 - Jun 02] Project Lead, hSenid Software Intl, Sri Lanka
[Nov 00 - Jun 01] Software Engineer, hSenid Software Intl, Sri Lanka
[Aug 00 - Oct 00] Software Engineer, Valista (formerly Network365) , Ireland
[Feb 00 - Jul 00] Trainee Software Engineer, hSenid Software Intl, Sri Lanka

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