Kalpani Manathunga is a Senior Lecturer attached to Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology , Sri Lanka. She is the program coordinator of the Interactive Multimedia degree program at SLIIT and an active researcher in the Human Computer Interaction research group and e-learning and education group and a member of the Faculty Research Committee. She holds a Doctor in Information and Communication Technologies from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Spain in the field of Educational Technologies. She was working as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at UPF with the predoctoral researcher grant from 2013 - 2017. She was also a visiting researcher at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK (October 2016 to January 2017). During her PhD, Kalpani was a part of several national level projects like RESET, CoT, Educational Data Science (MDM) in Spain. She completed Master's in Computer Science from UCSC, Sri Lanka and BSc in IT from Curtin University, Australia. Her research interests vary from learning technologies (including learning sciences and scalable learning eco systems) to human computer interaction.