Duminda Wijesekera

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Duminda Wijesekera
Born1957
Colombo, Sri Lanka
CitizenshipUSA
Alma mater University of Minnesota
Cornell University
University of Colombo
Scientific career
Fields Data Mining, Machine Learning
Institutions George Mason University
Honeywell
Thesis Quality of Service for Continuous Media: Metrics, Validation, Implementation and Performance Evaluation  (1997)
Doctoral advisor Jaideep Srivastava

Duminda Wijesekera is an American computer scientist of Sri Lankan descent. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University and acting chair of Cyber Security Engineering Department. [1] He is also a visiting research scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota (1997) and another PhD in Mathematical Logic from Cornell University (1990). [2] He has a Bachelors in Mathematics from University of Colombo. He also holds a courtesy appointments at the Computer Science Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, NIST. He has published more than 100 research papers in the area of cybersecurity. He was also part of the team that investigated Metro Blue Line derailment in Washington DC. [3]

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Wijesekera also leads the Laboratory of Radio and RADAR Engineering (RARE) which is a collaboration between academia, industry and government. [4] In 2007, he was named a Fellow of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. [5] He is also considered to be an expert in identifying money laundering using mathematical models and has done research on linking organ trafficking to terrorist networks. [6]

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  2. "Duminda Wijesekera GMU Official Page". Volgenau School of Engineering. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  3. Liss-Roy, Anna (27 October 2021). "Metro Blue Line defect that caused derailment could have been 'catastrophic,' NTSB says". WUSA. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
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  6. Gregory, Katherine (3 January 2017). "Syrian refugees selling their organs on the black market to get to Europe: experts". ABC News. Retrieved 30 November 2021.