🏆 Awards & honours
Competition wins, scholarships and merit awards, followed by training schools and workshops.
🏆 Awards & scholarships
- Full PhD scholarship — to conduct research towards a doctoral degree in computer science and artificial intelligence, University of Wollongong, Australia.
- Full travel grant — to represent Sri Lanka in the JENESYS 2020 second-batch programme, organised by the Government of Japan.
- Winner, IEEE R10 Asia-Pacific Humanitarian Robotics Challenge 2018 (open category) — METABOT: a metal tactile robot based on active sensing. 6th IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference, Colombo, 6–8 December 2018.
- Best undergraduate project recognition, IESL — the active tactile sensor research was recognised by the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka as one of the best electrical and electronic undergraduate projects in the country.
- Top five undergraduate research projects — Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, for the active tactile sensor project.
- Third place, best presenter — “Maximum Power Point Tracking Device”, IET Present Around the World 2018 Annual Technical Conference, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 12 May 2018.
- Winner, IEEE Circuit Design Competition 2016 — organised by the IEEE Sri Lanka Section; the task, set and evaluated by the University of Moratuwa, was to design a 10 W hi-fi amplifier.
- University Colours — awarded for hockey in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
- Mahapola Scholarship — for meritorious performance at G.C.E. Advanced Level (2013).
- Ceylinco Randaru Pranama Scholarship — for meritorious performance at G.C.E. Advanced Level (2013).
- Dialog Merit Scholarship — for best performance in mathematics at G.C.E. Ordinary Level (2009).
📖 Training & workshops
- IEEE Training School on Machine Learning for Wireless Communications — School of Computer Science and Robotics, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia, 24–26 March 2021.
- Machine learning workshop — 2019 IEEE 14th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS).
- Workshop on Humanitarian Robotics — IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2020), 9 November 2020.