Dr. Lochandaka Ranathunga is a Senior Academic in Information Technology at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research focuses on social media analytics, artificial intelligence, multimedia, and data-driven intelligent systems, with particular interest in personalized travel recommendation, continuous social media stream analysis, and real-time data processing. He is also a coordinator of the University of Moratuwa’s Social Media Research Group, which works on interdisciplinary research related to social media data analytics and digital platforms.

His current and ongoing contributions include research on personalized travel recommendation approaches through continuous analysis of social media streams, improving the algorithmic performance of social media data analytics, and applying high-performance computing techniques to large-scale data processing problems. He also contributes to ongoing departmental research in personalized travel recommendations using social media analytics and real-time stream processing.

Dr. Ranathunga holds qualifications including B.Sc. Sp(Hons), M.Sc., PGDip in Distance Education (IGNOU), and PhD (University of Malaya), and is affiliated with professional bodies including MIPSL and MCSSL. Public university sources also identify him in academic leadership roles within the University of Moratuwa.