Multidisciplinary Approaches in Artificial Intelligence

Dr D.S. Kalana Mendis is a Senior lecturer at the Department of Information Technology, Advanced Technological Institute, Dehiwala, Sri Lanka. He obtained his BSc (Hons.) from the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. He obtained his MPhil in Computer Science from the Open University of Sri Lanka and obtained his PhD in Engineering Technology (Fuzzy logic in Artificial Intelligence) from the Open University of Sri Lanka. He is a Chartered Physicist. He has published more than 90 research publications and reviewed many research papers in IEEE Transaction of Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Intelligent Information Management, International Conference on Industrial Information Systems, and Journal of Soft Computing in Image processing. He received presidential research award for scientific research in 2014. He was a Chairman of the Environment committee in the Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Sciences in 2017 and a council member for Institute of Physics Sri Lanka in 2014. He is a special issue organizer of WSEAS Transaction on Computers. He is a Life member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka and engages in research work on archaeology, history of science and technology of Sri Lanka for national and also international forums. His research fields are fuzzy modeling, fuzzy sets and systems, High performance computing, Knowledge engineering and Artificial Intelligence in general.