Meet our diverse and experienced team.

Saaveethya Sivakumar is a faculty member at Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Curtin University Malaysia. She is also the program coordinator of Bachelor of Computing (Software Engineering) and Head of Training and Development with Faculty of Engineering and Science, Curtin University Malaysia. Saaveethya completed her PhD at Monash University and B.Eng. Electronic and Communication Engineering at Curtin University. She is the proud recipient of the Keysight Best Electronic Communication Graduate Award presented by Curtin Malaysia in 2015.

Her research focus lies in the areas of Machine learning, Signal Processing, Image Processing, Gait Analysis, Biomechanics, and Biomedical Engineering. Saaveethya is currently volunteering as the IEEE MGA Rep at IEEE Young Professionals 2023 and IEEE Region 10 (Asia Pacific) Young Professionals Committee Chair for 2021-2023. She is the immediate past Regional Student Representative of IEEE Region 10 for 2019-2020, for representing student members across the Asia Pacific. She is the recipient of Malaysia Section Women In Engineering Outstanding Volunteer Award in 2016 and IEEE MGA Young Professionals Achievement Award in 2021.

She is strongly interested and motivated in developing STEM skills of students at their early learning stages providing university and pre-university students with interactive learning and collaborative research. As such, her future perspective is to create better wellbeing for existing social needs especially in the field of healthcare technology

Chamika Sudusinghe is a Software Engineer at WSO2 LLC, an open-source technology provider, having experience in API management and integration. Chamika graduated from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. He has published research in the domains of computer architecture, network-on-chips and machine learning.

Chamika has been volunteering with IEEE since 2017 and was part of many global, regional and section initiatives. For his contributions, he has received multiple awards including the Upsilon Pi Epsilon Honor Society Award, Richard E. Merwin Scholarship Award and Lance Stafford Larson Student Writing Award from the IEEE Computer Society and the Section Outstanding Volunteer Award from IEEE Sri Lanka. Currently, he serves as the TAB Representative (Region 7-10) at the IEEE Young Professionals (YP) Committee.

Megha Ben is a two-time Richard E Merwin Student Scholarship winner hailing from India. She graduated from the College of Engineering Trivandrum with a Major in Applied Electronics and Instrumentation in 2018. After 3 years as an industry professional, she relocated to the North Carolina, USA to pursue a Master’s in Engineering Management from Duke University with a focus on Customer Experience Design and Innovation Management.

She has been a proactive member of IEEE since 2014 and has volunteered in 10+ Student / Early Career Professional leadership roles at various levels. She currently serves as a TAB Rep on IEEE Young Professionals. During her tenure as the Vice Chair for SYP on CS MGA Board (2019 – 2021), she has helped re-align the scope of Student & Young Professional Activities, reforming the committee’s organizational structure, and initiating and overseeing several member engagement activities. In 2021, she conceptualized student membership value proposition, authored the Student Membership vision statement for IEEE CS Strategic Plan 10, and served on the Ad Hoc Committee for Increasing Diversity in BOG Nominations/Slate. She was awarded the Spirit of IEEE Computer Society Award 2021 “For effectively representing Student and Early Career initiatives across many Computer Society strategic efforts.” She is also a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Continuous Service Award in 2019.

During her time as a graduate student at Duke, she has served as Student Leadership Graduate Assistant, organizing leadership training and workshops for several undergraduate student organizations. She was also the Program Assistant for Duke Civic Engagement, supporting several community engagement initiatives across Durham and the Triangle area. She was a founding cabinet member & later the President of the IDEA (Innovation Design Entrepreneurship Applications) Club – a graduate-level student club under Duke’s Pratt School of Engineering. She also serves on the Duke International Students Advisory Board.