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DrAnnista Wijayanayake

Lecturer in Information Systems and Business Analytics, Education-focused

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Business School

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  • Lecturer in Information Systems and Business Analytics, Education-focused
    Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Business School
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    2026 Freight Data Working Group Member for Freight Victoria
    7 Sep 2026
    2026 Freight Data Working Group Member: Represent the Deakin Research & Innovation team in the Freight Innovation and Technology Partnership, Freight Victoria, contributing to freight-data gap analysis and the development of an integrated data ecosystem to enhance freight and supply-chain efficiency and evidence-based decision-making.
  • JOURNAL REVIEWING / REFEREEING
    Reviewer of International Journal of Logistics Management
    11 Nov 2025
  • MEMBERSHIP
    Member of Australian Computer Society (ACS) (opens in a new tab)⁠
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  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Teaching excellence award for 2024
    31 Jul 2024 - 31 Jul 2024
    Recognised as the top-performing unit (ETX5900) across Semester 1, Semester 2, and the Summer Semester for consistently achieving Purple Band scores in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash Business School, Australia.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Best Undergraduate Research project -2022
    9 Dec 2022 - 9 Dec 2022
    Supervised an Honours research project that received the Best Honours Research Award for developing a solution to the Manufacturer’s Pallet Loading Problem (MPLP) under practical warehouse constraints.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Research Excellence Project -2021
    10 Dec 2021 - 10 Dec 2021
    Supervised an Honours research project that received the Best Honours Research Award for the Solution approach to the incompatibility of products in a multi-product and heterogeneous vehicle routing problem: An application in the 3PL industry.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Teaching Excellence Award.
    31 Jul 2019 - 31 Jul 2025
    -Dept. of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Business School Monash University, Australia
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Track Chair – Smart Logistics and Supply Chain Solutions (opens in a new tab)⁠
    2 Sep 2024 - 4 Apr 2025
    International Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE) Scopus indexed, IEEE conference.
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  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Track Chair – Data Analytics and Intelligence (opens in a new tab)⁠
    4 Aug 2024 - 25 Apr 2025
    International Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE) Scopus indexed, IEEE conference.
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  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Chief Editor (opens in a new tab)⁠
    2 Aug 2021 - 27 May 2022
    International Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE) Scopus indexed, IEEE conference.
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  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Conference Chair :International conference on Applied and Pure Sciences (opens in a new tab)⁠
    10 Jan 2020 - 30 Oct 2020
    Served as the Chair of the International Conference on Applied and Pure Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Kelaniya. ICAPS 2020
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  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Session Chair - 2026 Deakin Teaching and Learning Conference
    5 Nov 2026 - 5 Nov 2026
    2026 Deakin Teaching and Learning Conference, Connected, Personalised and Lifelong: Teaching and Learning Today Session Chair of Room1 3:15 pm to 4:05 session
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Google Scholar (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Citations 737 H-index 10 i10-index 10
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  • CAREER HIGHLIGHT
    International Champion (Sri Lanka)
    28 Nov 2025 - 27 Nov 2026
    Led initiatives to build strategic partnerships and strengthen collaboration with the top four private universities/institutes in Sri Lanka, supporting international engagement and institutional development.