Senior Professor Kennedy D. Gunawardena

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Senior Prof. Dr. Kennedy D Gunawardena is Professor of Accounting Information Systems at the department of Accounting, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. In addition to being the Senior Professor of Accounting in his department, he has served as a Chairman of the Board of Study in Management from 2010 to 2016 and first coordinator of the PhD in Management Program of the Faculty of Management Studies & Commerce from 2012 to 2016. He teaches Cost and Management Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Artificial Neural Networks for Accounting and Research Methodology in Accounting and finance for the undergraduates and Postgraduates students. Senior Professor Gunawardana worked in several public sector and private sector organization as chairman and presently, he is board member of the post graduate institute of Sri Jayewardenepura (PIM) member of the syndicate committee of Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo (IHRS) and member of the Board of Management in University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC).

Senior Prof. Gunawardena is the first Sri Lankan who made link with Artificial Intelligence to the Field of Accounting and Finance for Corporate sector predictions, he has developed new course unit called, artificial neural network for accounting and it is very popular course among the university students today. Senior Prof. Gunawardena is working as a Visiting faculty member of the University of Moratuwa, University of Kalaniya and University of Colombo in their MBA programme in the area of Accounting, Management Information systems and Research methodology. With over 100 research articles published in refereed conferences proceedings, numerous other papers and monographs, 6 text books in English and 3 books in Sinhala, 2 chapters of the International books come under his credentials. Senior Prof. Gunawardena ranks in the top number one in teaching, training and research in the field of Academia. Senior Prof Kennedy D Gunawardana currently scored over 100 Google citations and published many articles in FT pages in the newspapers in Sri Lanka.One of his achievement is obtained Presidential Award in Scientific Publication in 2015.