We are thrilled to share that the University of Ruhuna has achieved incredible success in the IEEEXtreme competition, climbing both national and global leaderboards with exceptional performances! In 2024 (IEEEXtreme 18.0), our teams delivered outstanding results: 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 7th and 8th places in Sri Lanka Three teams ranked within the Top 100 globally!…
The University of Ruhuna is proud to announce that one of its distinguished alumni, Eng. Ajmal Abdul Azees, has been recognised as a finalist at the prestigious 2024 Victorian International Education Awards in Australia. Ajmal, a graduate of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, has earned this honour for…
The team CypherX of University of Ruhuna emerged Champions in CyberZee, Inter-University Cybersecurity quiz competition in 2024, organized by ISACA Student Chapter of University of Kelaniya. Congratulations to the team CypherX on this outstanding achievement. In a fierce competition involving over 40 teams in the University category, Team CypherX from the Computer Engineering Program…
Dr. (Eng.) K.M.S.Y. Konara attached to the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna was awarded the President’s Awards for Scientific Research which is one of the most prestigious scientific research awards in Sri Lanka. Dr. Konara has been honored with President’s Award for one of his research articles published…
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…
A group of students from the 22nd Batch, Faculty of Engineering has won the championship of islandwide “Evolution AI”, an Artificial Intelligence Ideathon organized by AIESEC in the University of Kelaniya.
Dr. N. W. Prins presented the oration at the Association of Sri Lankan Neurologists Annual Congress (ASNAC) on 18th February 2022 held at the Shangri-La, Colombo.
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: 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…
Grand Finale of IET Young Woman Engineer of the year 2019 was successfully held on 17th of January 2020 at Hotel Galadari. Department alumna Eng. Ms. Zahara Farook was selected as IET Young Women Engineer 2019.