Nimesha Ranasinghe (Ph.D.) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Information Science and is affiliated with the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA) at UMaine. He joined the School at the beginning of 2018. Previously, he worked as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore.
Education
Ph.D. National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2013
B.Sc. University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2007
Research Interests
Nimesha’s research interests include Multisensory Interactive Media, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human-Computer Interaction. He is well-known for his Digital Taste (a.k.a. Virtual Flavors) and Virtual Cocktail (Vocktail) inventions and featured in numerous media around the world including New Scientist, NewYork Times, Time Magazine, BBC Radio, Discovery Channel, and Engadget. Furthermore, he has published his work in several prestigious academic conferences and journals such as ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM conference on Multimedia, and Journal of Human-Computer Studies. He has received numerous awards for his research works; in 2014 his work on Digital Lollipop was selected as one of the ten best innovations in the world by the netexplo forum in UNESCO HQ, Paris.