Dr. Susantha Herath joined the Information Systems Department in the Fall of 2001. Prior to that time, he was with the computer science faculty at University of Aizu from 1993-2001 and South West Texas State University from 1990-1993. Dr. Herath’s primary teaching and research interests are in systems and security. He is a senior member of IEEE.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Keio University, Japan, 1991
M. Eng. in Industrial and Computer Engineering, Electro-Communications University, Japan, 1987
B.S. in Business Administration, Sri Jayawardhanapura University, Sri Lanka, 1978
Area of Teaching
- Management Information Systems
- Systems Analysis and Design
- Security and Management of Operating Systems
- IT Risk Management
- Research Methodology
Research Interests
High performance dependable and secure systems, network security, natural language processing, neural and artificial intelligence.
Recent Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
- Herath, S., (2016), Topological Analysis of Network Systems for Intrusion Detections, Transactions on Networks and Communications, volume 4, issue 2 (2016)
- Herath, S, (2016), The Economy of Healthcare: Disparity Of Insured/Uninsured Profiles Among European Immigrants In The United States, Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences, 4(1), 2016, 1-9
- Herath, S (2014). Impacts of Labor and Capital on Manufacturing Production Function. British Journal of Economics, Management & Trade, 4(2): 158-172.
- Herath, S., (2013). Probabilistic Models for Anomaly Detection Based On Usage of Network Traffic. Journal of Information Engineering, Volume 3(9)
- Herath, S. (2011). Statistical Quality Control Approaches to Network Intrusion Detection. International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), 3(6), 115-124.
- Herath, S., (2009). Performance Comparison of Recent Random Number Generators. Journal of Global Information Technology, 3(1 and 2), 1-14.
- Herath, S. (2009). E-Collaboration Issues in Global Trade, Transactions and Practices. International Journal of Soft Computing Applications (IJSCA).
- Herath, S. (2008). An Interdisciplinary Accounting Forensics Course to Improve Computer Science Enrollments. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 74-81.
- Herath, S. (2008). Cryptographic Algorithms to Spatial Circuit Transformation in An Active Learning Module to Enhance the Information Assurance and Security Curriculum. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 23-29.
- Herath, S. (2007). Designing Computer Forensics Courses using Case Studies to Enhance Computer Security Curricula. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 23(1), 264-272.
- Herath, S. (2007). Intrusion Detection using the Chi-square Goodness-of-fit Test for Information Assurance, Network, Forensics and Software security. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 23(1), 255-263.
- Herath, S. (2007). The Volatility of the Stock Market and News. International Research Journal of Finance and Economics (11), 53-65.
- Chok, O.-S., Herath, J., & Herath, S. (2004). Computer Security Learning Laboratory: Implementation of DES and AES Algorithm Using Spreadsheets. International Journal of Effective Management, 1(2).
- Herath, S. (2004). Relating to a Common Perceptual Space for American English Vowels to Multilingual Verbal Attributes. The Journal of Three Dimensional Images, 18(1), 144-149.
- Marasinghe, C. A., Lambacher, L., Martens, W. L., Cohen, W. L., Molholt, G., & Herath, S. (2003). Universal perceptual attributes for perception of American English vowels by English and Japanese. Journal of Universal Languages, 4(2), 1-29.
- Ravindra, P., DeSilva, S., Jin, Q., & Herath, S. (2003). Web Based Agricultural Information & On line Analysis Systems. The Journal of Three Dimensional Images, 17(4), 92-97.
- Herath, S. (2002). Natural Language Generation Based on Desired Intention. International Journal of Information, 5(3).
Book Chapters
- Analysis of Sign Languages: A Step Towards Multi-lingual Machine Translation for Sign Language,Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1999, volume 1755, pages 530--537
- Performance Analysis of an Asynchronous Machine for Parallel Machine Learning, AI Methods and Applications, World Scientific Publishers, 1992 (ISBN 981-02-1057-4)
- Dataflow Computing Models, Functional and Logic Programming Languages and Dataflow Machines for Intelligence Computations, Computers for Artificial Intelligence Processing, pp 322-418, edited by Benjamin Wah and C.V. Ramamoortohy, pp 322-418, John Wiley '90
- Performance Comparison of Dataflow Computing Models, Dataflow Computing: Theory and Practice, pp 80-105, edited by John A. Sharp, Ablex, UK '90
- Functional and Logic Languages in Dataflow Computing'', Dataflow Computing: Theory and Practice edited by John A. Sharp, 1989
- Static and Dynamic Dataflow Computing Machines, Dataflow Computing: Theory and Practice edited by John A. Sharp, 1989
- Performance Evaluation of EM-3, Dataflow Computing: Theory and Practice edited by John A. Sharp, 1989
Other
- Herath, S., Chen, Q. J., Guster, D. C., & Schmidt, M. (2009). An Interdisciplinary Curriculum Model for a Graduate Program in Information Assurance (pp. 117-124). Freiburg, Germany: Proceedings of Informatics Education Europe IV.
- Silva, R. S., Tadano, K., & Herath, S. (2009). Unsupervised Approach to Acquire Robot Joint Attention (pp. 601-606): 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents.
- Guster, D. C., & Herath, S. (2008). Analysis of Vulnerabilities in a Global Authentication System in a University Based Distributed Processing Laboratory. Omaha, Nebraska: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Warfare and Security.
- Herath, S., Wanasinghe, D. R., Madurapperuma, A. P., & Giragama, C. N.W. (2006). Boundary Color Tones between Color Modifiers in Two Languages. Taipei, Taiwan: 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
- Herath, S., Madurapperuma, A. P., Marasinghe, C. A., & Giragama, C. N.W. (2006). Cross--Language Similarity between Perceptual and Semantic Structures of Color Tones. Taipei, Taiwan: 2006 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics.
- Herath, S. (2006). Case Studies for Learning Software Security Engineering. Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan: 9th International Conference on Humans and Computers Proceedings.
- Herath, S. (2005). Computer Forensics, Information Security, and Law: A Case Study, Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering: Systematic Approaches to Digital Forensic Engineering International Workshop.
- Marasinghe, C., Lambacher, S., Cohen, M., Giragama, C., Molholt, G., & Herath, S. (2004). Structural Representation of Perceptual Similarity and Multilingual Verbal Attributes: The 18th International Congress on Acoustics, ICA 2004.
- Herath, S. (2004). Application of Computer Forensics in Information Security and Law. Aizu Wakamatsu, Japan: 7th International Conference on Humans and Computers Proceedings.
- Marasinghe, C. A., Lambacher, S., Martens, W., Molholt, G., Madurapperuma, A. P., & Herath, S. (2004). Semantic Characteristics for Perception of American English Vowels by English, Japanese and Sinhala Native Speakers: First International Workshop on Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication.
- Charith, N., Giragama, W., Martens, W., Wanasinghe, D. R., & Herath, S. (2003). A Multilingual Study of Adjectives Used to Describe Timbre in Japanese, English and Sinhala (4th ed., vol. 17, pp. 138-143): The Journal of Three Dimensional Images.
- Marasinghe, C. A., Lambacher, S., Martens, S., Madurapperuama, A. P., Cohen, M., & Herath, S. (2003). KANSEI Information Processing for Perception of Vowel Sounds.: 5th The International Information Technology Conference (IITC) 2003.
- Marasinghe, C., Martens, W., Lambacher, S., Cohen, M., Madurapperuma, A. P., & Herath, S. (2003). Relating to a Common Perceptual Space for American English Vowels to Multilingual Verbal Attributes (4th ed., vol. 17, pp. 144-149): 3D Forum Journal.
- Marasinghe, C. A., Lambacher, S., Martens, W., Molholt, G., Madurapperuma, A. P., & Herath, S. (2003). Semantic Differential Analysis of Perception of American English Vowels by English Japanese and Sinh: International Workshop on Thought and Language, Tokyo, Japan.
- Charith, N., Giragama, W., Martens, W. L., Wanasignhe, D. R., Sabbir, A., & Herath, S. (2003). Relating Multilingual Semantic Scales to a Common Timbre Space: Part II: 115th Convention, Audio Engineering Society.
- Herath, S., Giragama, C. N., Martens, W. L., Wanasignhe, D. R., & Madurapperuma, A. P. (2003). Relating to a Common Perceptual Space for American English Vowels to Multilingual Verbal Attributes: Sixth International Conference on Humans and Computers.
- Herath, S., Ramnath, S., Herath, A., & Herath, J. (2003). Integration of Computer Security Laboratories into Computer Architecture Courses to Enhance Undergraduate Curriculum: Proceedings of Workshop on Computer Architecture Education.
- Herath, S. (2002). Word-Sense Disambiguation of Sinhala Language with Unsupervised Learning: International conference on information technology and applications, (ICITA 2002).
- Herath, S. (2002). Active Learning based Distance Education Environment for Teaching Object Oriented Programming for I: International Workshop on Multimedia Distance Education Systems and Technologies (MDEST2002).
- Herath, S., Ramnath, S., Herath, A., & Herath, J. (2002). Active Learning Based Distance Education Environment for Teaching Object Oriented Programming for Information Systems: Proceedings from the International Workshop on Multimedia Distance Education Systems and Technologies.
- Herath, S. (2002). Web Based Agricultural Information & On line Analysis Systems: The Third International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2002).