Sandhya Samarasinghe is a New Zealand engineering academic and currently a full professor at the
Lincoln University.[1]
Academic career
Samarasinghe earned a Master's of Science in Mechanical Engineering at
Patrice Lumumba University, Moscow, and a Master's and PhD in Engineering at
Virginia Tech.[2] After her 1991
PhD thesis, titled 'Long-term creep modeling of wood using time temperature superposition principle' , she moved to
Lincoln University, rising to full professor.[1]
Much of Samarasinghe's work involves software modelling of complex biological systems.
Selected works
Samarasinghe, Sandhya. Neural networks for applied sciences and engineering: from fundamentals to complex pattern recognition. Auerbach publications, 2016.
Kulasiri, Don, Lan K. Nguyen, Sandhya Samarasinghe, and Zhi Xie. "A review of systems biology perspective on genetic regulatory networks with examples."
Current Bioinformatics 3, no. 3 (2008): 197-225.
Wijethunga, P., Sandhya Samarasinghe, Don Kulasiri, and Ian Woodhead. "Digital image analysis based automated kiwifruit counting technique." In Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2008. IVCNZ 2008. 23rd International Conference, pp. 1–6. IEEE, 2008.
Samarasinghe, Sandhya, and Don Kulasiri. "Stress intensity factor of wood from crack-tip displacement fields obtained from digital image processing."
Silva Fennica 38, no. 3 (2004): 267-278.