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Chethana Liyanapathirana is an Assistant Professor in the Digital Forensics and Cyber Security Department at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, a position she has held since September 2024. With over nine years of experience spanning academia and industry, she brings extensive expertise in Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, and Digital Forensics.

She holds a BSc in Information Technology and an MSc in Cybersecurity from the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, where she was recognized with the Best Performance Award. Currently pursuing her PhD, her research focuses on A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Malware Detection and Sandbox Management.

Her research interests include:

Information Security and Trustworthy Computing

Trust-based model development for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and IoT

Machine learning-based mobile malware detection

Deep reinforcement learning models for malware identification