Dr. Amal Shehan Perera is a senior lecturer in computer science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. In addition to the various responsibilities he is the Director of the CITeS - University Center for IT Services and DataSEARCH research Center of the He has multiple research publications and a co-owner of a US patent on data mining technology. His areas of interest include data science, database systems, and software engineering. He won the ACM KDD Cup 2006 for data mining and knowledge discovery. He was invited as a senior visiting research scholar at North Dakota State University, in 2009. He is currently involved as a technical consultant for multiple government projects and also for some commercial banks in Sri Lanka.  He obtained his MSc and PhD from North Dakota State University and his BSc (Hons) from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.