Awards

 

President’s Award

  1. President’s Award for Scientific Publications, Sri Lanka (2019)

  2. President’s Award for Scientific Publications, Sri Lanka (2015)

  3. President’s Award for Scientific Publications, Sri Lanka (2000)

Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS)

  1. Best Oral Presentation (Heenatigala Shadi, Fernando TGI, Weerakoon S. Finite difference Weerakoon-Fernando Method to Solve Nonlinear Equations without Using Derivatives), Section E1 – Physical Sciences, 73rd SLAAS Annual Sessions (2017)

University of Sri Jayewardenepura Research Awards

  1. The award for the highest number of citations in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (2016)

  2. An award for publishing a research paper in an indexed journal (Science Citations Index Expanded), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (2015)

  3. The award for the highest number of citations in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka (2015)

  4. Best Poster – Science, 2009 (“MDL Salgado, S Weerakoon and TGI Fernando, Degree Reduction of Bezier Curves,” 50th Anniversary Academic Conference, University of Sri Jayewardenepura (2009)

Scholarships

  1. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) scholarship – UK, Financial support for PhD in Intelligent Systems, Brunel University, UK (2005)

  2. President’s Scholarship – Sri Lanka, Financial support for PhD in Intelligent Systems, Brunel University, UK (2004)

  3. ADB (Asian Development Bank) Scholarship, 2000 – 2002 (financial support for M.Sc. in Computer Science, AIT, Thailand)

Other

  1. NVIDIA Corporation granted a Tesla K40 (Active) GPU processor (approximately US$ 4,000) to support the research in Deep Learning in January (2016)

Awards won by Undergraduate/Postgraduate Students

  1. Dr. Dr. MKA Ariyaratne (Postgraduate) – President’s Award for Scientific Publications, Sri Lanka (2019)
  2. Ms. WMKS Ilmini (Postgraduate) – Merit Award (Postgraduate Category)(2019)
    National Best Quality ICT Awards (2019), Sri Lanka
    Project: Personality Detector
  3. Mr. Priyankan Kirupaharan (Undergraduate) – Certificate of Appreciation (Business and Commerce Category)(2018)
    Digital Social Impact Awards organized by eSwabhimani (2018), Sri Lanka
    Project: A Mobile Application to Identify Fish Species using Convolutional Neural Networks
  4. Mr. Dulan Dias (Undergraduate) – Gold Award (Tertiary Student Project)(2018)
    Asia Pacific ICT Alliance Awards (APICTA)(2018), held in Guangzhou, China
    Project: Komposer – Automated Musical Note Generation based on Lyrics with Recurrent Neural Networks
  5. Mr. Dulan Dias (Undergraduate) – Silver Award (Tertiary Student Project)(2018)
    National Best Quality ICT Awards (2018), Sri Lanka
    Project: Komposer – Automated Musical Note Generation based on Lyrics with Recurrent Neural Networks
  6. Mr. Priyankan Kirupaharan (Undergraduate) – Bronze Award (Tertiary Student Project)(2018)
    National Best Quality ICT Awards (2018), Sri Lanka
    Project:A Mobile Application to Identify Fish Species using Convolutional Neural Networks
  7. Ms. IDID Ariyasingha (Postgraduate) – President’s Award for Scientific Publications, Sri Lanka (2015)