Dr Charith Abhayaratne
PhD(Bath) BE(Adelaide) PGCertHE(Sheffield) FHEA MIEEE MIET

Lecturer,
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering,
The University of Sheffield,
Sheffield,
United Kingdom.
Research Interests
- Multidimensional signal processing and analysis.
- Video and image coding and streaming.
- Content forensics (watermarking and fingerprinting).
- Multi-modal sensing, data analysis and machine learning.
- Applications in creative industries, networked digital media, security, surveillance, assisted living, healthcare, remote sensing and digital manufacturing.
Professional Activities
- Professional Bodies
- Journal Editorships
- Associate Editor - Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA) (2017- to present)
- Guest Editor - Special issue on "Scalable coded media beyond compression" in Elsevier Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication, July 2009, [DOI Link].
- International Conference Organizing Committees
- General Chair - IET VIE Workshop on Scalable Coded Media beyond Compression, July-Aug. 2008, Xian, China, [Web].
- International Conference Special Session Organization
- Reviewer for Journals
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.
- IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.
- IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems on Video Technology.
- IEEE Transactions Circuits and Systems-II Express Briefs.
- IEEE Transactions on Information Foensics and Security.
- IEEE Access.
- IET Circuits, Devices and Systems.
- IET Image Processing.
- IET Signal Processing.
- EURASIP Journal on image and video processing.
- EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems.
- Elsevier Signal Processing.
- Elsevier Signal Processing: image communication.
- SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging.
- SPIE Optical Engineering.
- ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications.
- Elsevier applied Mathematics and Computation.
- WILEY Security and Communication networks.
- Journal of Real-time Image Processing.
- Plos One.
- Reviewer for Research Councils
- UK - EPSRC Peer review college.
- Hong Kong - RGC.
- Eutropean Commission - Horizon2020
- Reviewer for Book Publishers
- Cambridge University Publishers.
- John Wiley and Sons.
- PhD External Examiner
- Northumbria University (2014).
- Queen Mary, University of London (2010, 2013, 2014).
- The University of Bristol (2016).
- The University of Surrey (2009, 2010).
- The University of West of Scotland (2016).
- Expert reviewer for teaching programmes
- The University of West of Scotland - MSc in Advanced Computing (2016).