Professor  Anura Jayasumana

res_apj_ACM_DL_0120.Anura Jayasumana is a Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Colorado State University, where he also holds joint appointments in Computer Science   and Systems Engineering Departments. Prof. Jayasumana’s areas of expertise include  network and data mining, network analytics, Internet of Things, network coordinate systems,  peer-to-peer networks, detection of distributed patterns, and profile detection in social network data. 

He has served as the Principal Investigator/Co-PI/Project Member of numerous  DARPA, NSF, AFRL, ARL, DoJ/NIJ (Department of Justice) and industry funded projects. He was also  a member of the  NSF Engineering Research Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere, and served as CASA Education & Outreach Lead at CSU. He has served extensively as a consultant to industry dealing with cutting-edge technologies,  was involved with a start-up company, and has served as an expert witness.

Professor Jayasumana is a member of the ACM. He served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2014-201. He has an extensive record of  keynote speeches, distinguished lectures,  research seminars and tutorials.  He received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Michigan State University, and B.Sc. degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. See http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~anura for additional details.

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