The Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, is proud to announce that our undergraduate projects, “iHeart: Multi-modal Cardiac Monitor for Emerging AI Health Applications” – 1st Place “Thoraxis: Interpretable abnormality classification in volumetric chest CT using Dictionary Learning” – 2nd Place secured 1st Place and the the 2nd Place at the Undergraduate Inventor of the…
A proud moment for the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, as SinhalaLM by HelaAI – Sinhala Language Model receives the Gold Award in the Best Sinhala/Tamil AI & Localisation Innovation category at the National AI Awards 2026. The National AI Awards 2026, held as part of Sri Lanka AI Week, recognise significant achievements…
The Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, is proud to announce that the project “iHeart: Multi-modal Cardiac Monitor for Emerging AI Health Applications” secured 2nd Place at the National AI Awards 2026 under the Innovation & Future Focus Category – University AI Innovation Award. The National AI Awards 2026, organized by SLT-MOBITEL in collaboration with…
Two undergraduates from the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, G.D.P. Jayawardhana and W.M.I. Weerasooriya, successfully completed an Erasmus+ exchange programme at the University of Agder (UiA), Norway, during the spring 2026 semester. Based at UiA’s Grimstad campus, the students had the opportunity to experience a high-quality international academic…
Teams from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, showcased exceptional innovation and technical skill at the Innovate with Ballerina 2025 competition organized by the IEEE Student Branch of University of Moratuwa and WSO2, with the grand finale held on October 6, 2025, at WSO2. Out of more than 500 teams from universities across Sri…
Team Cyclone X proudly achieved the 2nd Runners-up position at Coderally 6.0 – the inter-university hackathon organized by the IEEE Computer Society of Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT). The competition attracted more than 260 teams representing leading state and private universities and institutes across Sri Lanka. After successfully completing a one-month long series of selection…
Scorpion X – A team of third-year Computer Engineering undergraduates from Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna has won the 1st place at CodeX, a prestigious all-island coding competition organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa which was held in 3rd of May 2025. Held in celebration of the CSE…
Team Scorpion X proudly achieved the 2nd Runners-up position at {Algothon} – the inter-university Algorithms and Coding Competition of Codefest 2025, organized by the Faculty of Computing in Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) on 25.08.2025. The team earned its place among the Top 30 finalists after competing against more than 90…
Heartfelt congratulations to Dilshara Herath from Team Aero-Sense from the University of Ruhuna for their outstanding achievement in securing 3rd place at the Undergraduate Thesis Project Competition 2024 organized by, IEEE Signal Processing Society Chapter Sri Lanka Collaboration with SLTC Centre of Telecommunication Research (CTR). This event brought together Sri Lanka’s brightest minds in Signal…
Heartfelt congratulations to Team Aero-Sense from the University of Ruhuna for their outstanding achievement in securing 1st place at the INSL Idea Stage Competition 2024, organized by IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka (INSL). This prestigious competition was held over multiple stages, beginning with provincial rounds and culminating in a national final where the top teams…