Prof. Damminda Alahakoon

Damminda Alahakoon is Professor of Business Analytics and Artificial Intelligence, La Trobe University Business School and Director of the Research Centre for Data Analytics and Cognition at La Trobe University. His research has focused on Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Data Analytics, Quantum Computing and the application research innovations in industry.
Professor Alahakoon has over 20 years’ experience as an academic in several Australian Universities as well as over 10 years’ in the IT and finance industries in Sri Lanka, Australia and The Netherlands. His research has been adopted in a range of domains from healthcare, utilities, smart cities, education, industrial optimization and national security and published in over 200 peer reviewed articles. He has received over 8 million in research grants from various funding bodies such as ARC, NHMRC, CRC and National funding schemes such as CTCP and Industry Innovation funds. He led the successful CTCP phase 1 project Quantum Enhanced Optimisation for Energy Efficient Data Centres to completion and has been awarded funding for phase 2 demonstrator stage.