Hansi Munasinghe is a PhD student in Security Studies in the School of Politics, Security, and International Affairs at the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include cognitive security, human factors and decision-making, cybersecurity, intelligence analysis, and AI and digital governance. She is particularly interested in how cognitive biases, stress, and uncertainty shape threat assessment and decision-making in cybersecurity and other high-stakes security environments.
She holds an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Kelaniya, a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology from the University of Colombo, and a diploma in Criminal Psychology and Offender Counseling from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. Her academic background spans computing, psychology, and criminology, informing her interdisciplinary approach to security research. Her master’s thesis, Cognitive Security: An Empirical Analysis of Cognitive Biases and Their Impact on Incident Response Among IT Professionals in Sri Lanka, examined the human dimensions of cybersecurity incident response.