Dr Deepani Babarenda Guruge

Course Coordinator / Senior Lecturer
School of IT & Engineering
Melbourne

Bio


Dr. Deepani B. Guruge is a highly accomplished Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator with over twenty years of unwavering commitment to the field of education and training. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Central Queensland University (CQU), along with a Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Mathematics and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science. Throughout her illustrious career, she has garnered extensive experience in imparting knowledge in data science, having taught at renowned Australian universities such as Monash, Adelaide, RMIT, Swinburne and MIT.

Qualifications


Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) - Central Queensland University (CQU), Rockhampton
Postgraduate Diploma in Industrial Mathematics (Statistics and Mathematics)
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Honours)

Teaching

  • BDA211 Data Warehousing
  • BDA312   Deep Learning Applications
  • BDA113 Data Visualization
  • BDA213 Data Analytics and Smart Applications
  • BN204 Database Technologies
  • MN405 Data and Information Management
  • MDA512 Data Science 
  • BE101 Engineering Mathematics
  • BN201 Professional Issues in IT
  • Supervision of Master By Research Students and Data Analytics Capstone projects

Experience & Research


Experience

Senior Lecturer / Course Coordinator 
Lecturer (Teaching & Research)
Associate Lecturer / Tutor / Sessional Academic

Research Interest

Responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI), with particular emphasis on Explainable AI (XAI) and human-centred machine learning, DeepFake detection, Recommender systems.