Dr. Kaveen Liyanage

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Montana State University, USA), BSc.Eng (Hons) (Peradeniya, SL)

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Contact info

kaveen.l@eie.ruh.ac.lk

About

Dr. Kaveen Liyanage received his first degree, BSc. Hons (Eng) specialized in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Peradeniya in 2013. He has obtained a Doctoral Degree in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University, USA in 2024. He joined University of Ruhuna in 2025 as a Senior Lecturer (Grade II).

Research Areas

  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Data Representations
  • Machine Learning
  • Graph data representation
  • Software Quality Assurance

Teaching

  • Signals and Systems
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Blockchain and Cyber Security

Publications

  • Liyanage, L. K. G. (2024). SPARSE DESCRIPTORS FOR WHOLE GRAPH EMBEDDING AND DICTIONARY BASED FEATURE RANKING(Doctoral dissertation, MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY Bozeman)
  • Izurieta, C., Reimanis, D., O’Donoghue, E., Liyanage, K., Muneza, A. R. M., Whitaker, B., & Reinhold, A. M. (2024). A generalized approach to the operationalization of software quality models. PeerJ Computer Science, 10, e2357
  • Radhoush, S., Vannoy, T., Liyanage, K., Whitaker, B. M., & Nehrir, H. (2023). Distribution system state estimation using hybrid traditional and advanced measurements for grid modernization. Applied Sciences, 13(12), 6938.
  • Radhoush, S., Vannoy, T., Liyanage, K., Whitaker, B. M., & Nehrir, H. (2023). Distribution system state estimation and false data injection attack detection with a multi-output deep neural network. Energies, 16(5), 2288.
  • Liyanage, K., Gerard, E. L., Reimanis, D., Reinhold, A. M., Izurieta, C., LaMeres, B. J., & Whitaker, B. M. (2025, May). Unsupervised Mapping of Quantitative Measures to Qualitative Characteristics in Hierarchical Software Quality Assurance. In 2025 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • Portillo, B., Liyanage, K., & Whitaker, B. (2024, May). Improving Malware Detection from Binary Control Flow Graphs Using Supervised Learning. In 2024 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC) (pp. 174-179). IEEE.
  • Radhoush, S., Liyanage, K., Vannoy, T., Whitaker, B. M., & Nehrir, H. (2023, June). Incorporating Temporal and Meteorological Data for Generating Pseudo-measurements in Active Distribution Power Networks. In 2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) (pp. 44-45). IEEE.
  • Liyanage, K., Pearsall, R., Izurieta, C., & Whitaker, B. M. (2023, June). Dictionary learning on graph data with weisfieler-lehman sub-tree kernel and KSVD. In ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
  • Liyanage, K., & Whitaker, B. M. (2022, May). Feature analysis in satellite image classification using LC-KSVD and frozen dictionary learning. In 2022 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • Liyanage, K., Ramezani, F., & Whitaker, B. M. (2021, March). COVID-19 chest CT scan image classification using LCKSVD and frozen sparse coding. In International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Aided Diagnosis (pp. 272-281). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
  • Liyanage, K., & Whitaker, B. M. (2020, October). Satellite image classification using LC-KSVD sparse coding. In 2020 Intermountain Engineering, Technology and Computing (IETC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
  • Galgamuwa, G. I. R. K., Liyanage, L. K. G., Ekanayake, M. P. B., & Samaranayake, B. G. L. T. (2015, December). Simplified controller for three wheeled omni directional mobile robot. In 2015 IEEE 10th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS) (pp. 314-319). IEEE.

International Contributions

Team member, ABU ROBOCON International Robotics Competition (Sri Lankan Team), 2011

Awards

  • Dr. Donald Pierre, graduate student publishing award-Conference category (Montana State University, USA). 2022.
  • Merit award in the national Undergraduate Inventor of the Year (UIY), Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL). 2013.