Gihan V. Dias

Prof. Dias graduated from the University of Moratuwa in 1985. He was awarded a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California in 1992.

In addition to being a Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, he serves as the Domain Registrar and CEO of the LK Domain Registry.

He has led the Internationalised Domain Names (IDN) task force in Sri Lanka, and is a member of the IETF IDNA working croup and the Unicode Consortium.

He was a pioneer in the introduction of networking in this country, and was the Manager of the Lanka Education and Research Network - LEARN from 1995 to 2003. In 2003/04 he was a founder Programme Director of the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA).

He is currently the Director of the Centre on Localised Applications at the University of Moratuwa.

He has assisted many public and private organisations to build and secure their networks, and is the advisor to TechCERT, the first and leading computer security readiness team in the country.