Profile Brief

Ms. Lojenaa Navanesan is working as a Lecturer in ICT at the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Vavuniya and he has been 11 years’ experience in teaching in IT/ICT/CS domain. Lojenaa holds PhD in Computing , MSc. in Computer Science, BSc (Hons) in ICT. She is a researcher in computer science and Information Communication Technology determined to make a significant contribution in a vibrant international research community that invent solutions to real world problems.

Educational Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computing (UCSC, Colombo School of Computing)
• M.Sc. in Computer Science (University of Peradeniya)
• B.Sc. (Hons) in ICT (University of Jaffna)

Professional Qualifications

• Certificate in Higher Educational Teaching, National Certificate in Engineering Draughtsmanship

Previous Academic Positions

1. Temporary Lecturer, Temp., 30/04/2014-29/06/2015, Department of Physical Science, Vavuniya campus of the University of Jaffna.
2. Demonstrator, Temp., 10.04.2013 – 26/01/2014, Department of physical Science, Vavuniya cmpus of the University of Jaffna

Society membership

• MIEEE
• MCSSL

Research Supervision

1. A Web-based Automated COVID-19 Impact Analysis in Sri Lankan Tourism (DICT, 4th year group research)
2. Detecting and Monitoring Fishes and Pipe Leakages Through ROV Using Image Processing and IoT (DICT, 4th year group research)
3. Design and Implementation of Intelligent Window Controlling System towards Smart Home (DICT, 4th year group research)
4. Smart Helmet to reduce the high intensity of opposing vehicle’s headlights (DPS, 4th year research)
5. Faculty Educational Online System (FEOS) (DICT, 3rd year group project)
6. Virtual showroom for vehicle, spare parts and accessories buying and selling website DICT, 3rd year group project)
7. Help Desk – Ticket Management System (DICT, 3rd year group project)
8. E-Blood Bank Management System (DICT, 3rd year group project)
9. Regrant (Regaining the Granary of the East) (DPS, 3rd year group project)
10. E-Donor (Online Blood/Organ Donor Service Application) (DPS, 3rd year group project)
11. Developing software to manage and maintain Teachers’ details in Zonal Educational Office (DPS, 2nd year group project)
12. Budget Planner (DPS, 2nd year group project)

Institutional Development Activities

1. Participated as a judge in a judge panel for Hackaday V1.0 by ICTCS, FAS, 2019
2. Participated to prepare a list of goods and computing equipments from AHEAD grant, 2019, 2020, FTS.
3. Participated in Curriculum Evaluation Committee (CEC) meeting for ICT Curriculum, University of Jaffna, 2018
4. Participated in Curriculum Revision for ICT, Technology Stream, DPS, FAS
5. Participated in Stakeholder meeting for collect review’s comment on behalf of ICT Technology Stream, DPS, FAS
6. Prepared Hand Book for Technology Stream – 2017, 2018, 2019 , 2020

Talk

1. Lojenaa N. In Orientation Programme, Faculty of Technological Studies, “Forensics and security”, for first year students (2023/2024 batch), 2025.
2. Lojenaa N, In Forensic and Security Research Group., “EM-SCA: Unlocking Forensic Insights from Smart Devices”, UCD, Dublin, 25 September 2024 [online].
3. Lojenaa N, De Zoysa, K. and Sayakkara, A.P., In UCSC Research Discourse., “Ensuring Cross-device Portability of Electromagnetic Side-channel Analysis for Digital Forensics’” at University of Colombo School of Computing, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 24 June 2024.
4. Lojenaa N, Le-Khac, N.A., Scanlon, M., De Zoysa, K. and Sayakkara, A.P., In “Ensuring Cross-device Portability of Electromagnetic Side-channel Analysis for Digital Forensics’” at DFRWS EU 2024., Conference (March 20), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 19 – 22 March 2024.
5. Asanka P Sayakkara, Lojenaa N, In post-conference workshop ICTer Conference 2023, UCSC, Colombo, Sri Lanka “Forensic Insight from Electromagnetic Radiation” , 2023
6. Lojenaa N., In Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna  “Seminar on University Admission 2020/2021” , June 2021.[online]
7. Lojenaa N. In V/Rambaikulam Girls Maha Vidyalaya, “Advances in ICT”, for Grade 10 and 11 school students, 2021.
8. Lojenaa N. In Orientation Programme, Faculty of Technological Studies, “Introduction to Structure and Curriculum”, for first year students (2018/2019 batch), 2020.

Conferences / Workshop Attended

1. ICAC 2024, Pre-Conference Workshops, SLIIT, Malabe, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 06-07 December 2024 [online].
2. 24^th ICTer International Conference, UCSC, Marino Beach Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 06 – 07, November 2024.
3. DFRWS APAC 2024., Cloudland, Brisbane, Australia, 22-24 October 2024 [online].
4. DFRWS EU 2024., University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 19 – 22 March 2024.
5. Women in Forensic Computing Workshop 2024, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, 18 March 2024.
6. DFRWS EU 2023., University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 21 – 24 March 2023.
7. Women in Forensic Computing Workshop 2023, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, 20 March 2023.
8. Women in Forensic Computing Workshop (WinFC) 2022, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, March 28, 2022 (via online)
9. Participated virtual training session organized by Centre for Gender Equity and Equality (CGEE), University of Jaffna, 10th – 29th July 2021.

1. Member Editorial committee RCAICT 2025.
2. Academic Advisor for Batch 2021/2022
3. Member of University Health Committee, UoV, 2021
4. Deputy Proctor, FTS, 2020-2021
5. Member of Resource mobilization committee in CGEE, UoJ, 2021.
6. Member of Curriculum Evaluation Committee, FTS, 2020
7. Member of Curriculum Revision and Development Committee, DICT, 2020
8. Member of Industry Consultative Committee, DICT, 2020
9. Member of Anti_Ragging Committee, FTS, 2020
10. Member of Web Committee, FTS, 2020
11. Member of Web Committee, DICT, 2020
12. Member of the Research Committee, FTS, 2020
13. Member of the Faculty Board, FTS, 2020
14. Member of Health Prevention Committee, Vavuniya Campus, 2020
15. Member of Response Committee COVID19, FTS, 2020
16. Member of ExCo, VCTA, Vavuniya Campus, 2020
17. Member of University Business Linkage (UBL) Cell, 2019, DPS, FAS
18. Co-Editor VCIRS 2019, Vavuniya Campus, 2019
19. Member of Organizing Committee (CMT Operation), VCIRS 2019, Vavuniya Campus, 2019
20. Member of Designing and Printing committee. Vanni Career fair 2017, Vavuniya Campus
21. Member of the Student Assessment and Awards Committee, Programming Review, 2020, DPS, FAS
22. Member of the Student Assessment and Awards Committee, Institutional Review, 2017, IQAC, FAS
23. Member of Food and Refreshment Committee for VCIRS – 2017, Vavuniya Campus
24. Lecturer in charge for, ICTL, Pampaimadu Laboratory, DPS, FAS
25. Student Counsellor – from 18th of April 2017 to 17th of April 2018, FAS

Certificate of Merit Award (Merit Scholarship for the best performance in MSc in Computer Science)

Journal Publication

1. L.Navanesan, K. de Zoysa and A. P. Sayakkara., “Impact of Multiple CPU Cores to the Forensic Insights Acquisition From Mobile Devices Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis,” in IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 94953-94969, 2025, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3574340.
2. Navanesan L, Le-Khac N-A, Oren Y, De Zoysa K, Sayakkara AP ., “Cross-device Portability of Machine Learning Models in Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis for Forensics”. JUCS – Journal of Universal Computer Science 30(10): 1389-1422, Sep 2024. https://doi.org/10.3897/jucs.109788
3. Navanesan, L., Le-Khac, N.A., Scanlon, M., De Zoysa, K. and Sayakkara, A.P., “Ensuring cross-device portability of electromagnetic side-channel analysis for digital forensics”, Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 48, p.301684, Mar 2024.
4. George, R., Navanesan, L.& Thangathurai, K. “Revisiting the steganography techniques with a novel region-based separation approach”. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 71089–71114, Feb 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17961-8
5. Yasarathna, T.L., Navanesan. L., Barcque, S., Sayakkara, A. and Le-Khac, N.A.,”Crossed-IoT device portability of Electromagnetic Side Channel Analysis: Challenges and Dataset”, Vietnam Journal of Computer Science, Feb 2024.
6. Lojenaa, N., and Nawarathna, R.D., “Fraud Detection Mechanism for Credit Card Transactions of Banks Using Machine Learning”, Rajarata University Journal, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihinthale, Sri Lanka, vol. 5(1): 69-76; June 2020, ISSN: 2362-0080.

Publication in International Conference

1. M. Amar, L. Navanesan, A. Sayakkara and Y. Oren, “Two’s Complement: Monitoring Software Control Flow Using Both Power and Electromagnetic Side Channels”, 2024 27th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 218-226, doi: 10.1109/DSD64264.2024.00037.
2. Amar, M., Navanesan, L., Sayakkara, A.P. and Oren, Y. “Waves of Knowledge: A Comparative Study of Electromagnetic and Power Side-Channel Monitoring in Embedded Systems”. In International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber- Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (pp. 158-170), Oct 2023, Cham: Springer Nature, Switzerland.
3. Yanusha, M., Kartheeswaran, T., and Lojenaa, N., “Usability and Accessibility Analysis of Online Banking Systems in Sri Lanka”. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Computing Research, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India held on 13-15 December 2018. pp. 408-414.
4. Gopinath, S; Lojenaa, N; Senthooran, V; and Kartheeswaran, T, “Usability and Accessibility Analysis of Government of Websites of Sri Lanka”, 2016, IEEE Region 10 Symposium (TENSYMP -2016), Bali Indonesia.

Publication In Local Conference

1. Thivaharan, S., Suparoopan, S., Gopy Prasath, S., Sanoj, S., Dinojen, T., Amrithaa, P., Lojenaa, N. and Kartheeswaran, T., “Underwater Rover using IoT to Track Objects and Organisms under the Water”, Research Conference on Advances in Information Communication Technology (RAICT 2022) Faculty of Technological Studies, University of Vavuniya, 04 October 2022.
2. M.M. Mohamed Asjath, M.M. Mohamed Mufassirin, and N. Lojenaa., “Image Based Automatic Vehicle Number Plate and Parking Slot Recognition and Monitoring System”, First Annual Research Session 2020 (FARS 2020), Faculty of Applied Science, Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, 02 December 2020.
3. N. Lojenaa, Ruwan D. Nawarathna, S. S. Suthaharan, “A Digital Green Banking Framework: A Background Analysis for Fingerprint Approaches” IRCICT 2018, 23 November 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
4. Kartheeswaran, T; Gopinath, S; Lojenaa, N; Senthooran, V, “Real-time Lecture Delivery Approach to e-Learning Using WebRTC”, WinC, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, 2016.
5. Vaishali, R., Shathana, R., Lojenaa, N., and Kartheeswaran, T. “Memory Wastage analysis using variable Alignment”, 2015, 6th International Conference on Business and Information (ICBI-2015), 22 November 2015.

Abstract

1. Lojenaa Navanesan, Kasun de Zoysa, and Asanka Sayakkara,“Forensic Insights from iPhones using EM-SCA”, Digital Forensics Research Workshop – Asia-Pacific (DFRWS APAC 2023), October 17-20, 2023, Singapore. (Best Poster Award)

2. Micheal Amar, Lojenaa Navanesan, Yossi Oren, “Control Flow Monitoring”, poster presentation at Department of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben- Gurion University of the Negev, May 2023.

Teaching Interest

• Digital Forensics
• Side-channel Analysis
• Intelligent Systems
• Database
• Management Systems
• Discrete Mathematics
• Data Structures

Undergraduate Subjects

• TICT1113 – Components of ICT
• TICT1114 – Essentials of ICT
• TCIT1212 – Discrete Mathematics
• TICT1213 – Data Structures
• TICT2113 – Introduction to Database Management System
• TICT2153 – Human Computer Interaction
• TICT3213 – Advanced Database Management systems
• TICT4143 – Intelligent Systems
• TICT4216 – Group Research Project