Best Technical Paper and Winner in IET Young Professionals’ Technical Conference 2023

Vidura Bandara Wijekoon, a final year undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, won the IET Young Professionals’ Technical Conference 2023. His paper, “Critical Assessment of Machine Learning-Based Approaches for Predicting System Inertia in Power Systems” earned him the Best Technical Paper award. This paper evaluates different machine learning strategies used for…

Best Innovative Product at SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards 2021

The undergraduate project “UWB Radio Sensing Platform for Non-Contact Vital Signs Monitoring” supervised by Dr. Chatura Seneviratne, Dr.  Amaranath Karunanayake, and Dr. Jagath Gamage won the award “Best Innovative Product – University Category – Southern Province” at the SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards 2021. The award ceremony was held on the 30th of March 2021 at…

MEDICUS+: Robot for Remote Patient Monitoring and Real Time Communication

MEDICUS+: Robot for Remote Patient Monitoring and Real Time Communication: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at University of Ruhuna has developed a medical robot which will allow for doctors to remotely diagnose patients using temperature, heart rate, blood oxygen and ECG, with two way audio-video communication.  This was unveiled to the Teaching Hospital…