Dr. S. H. K. K. Gunawickrama
PhD (Gdansk, Poland), MEng (Gdansk, Poland)
Contact info
+94718241787
keerthi@eie.ruh.ac.lk
Room E112
About
Dr Keerthi Gunawickrama joined the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna in 2003 as a Senior Lecturer, and has been involved in academic work in the area of computer engineering. In the University of Ruhuna, he has held several positions such as; Head /Department of Interdisciplinary Studies (2004-2008), Head/Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (2013-2018), Chairmen By-Law/Curriculum Revision Committee/Faculty of Engineering (2018), Director/Engineering Education Centre (2003/4). He also is the author of several number of publications across the fields of Fault Detection and Isolation, Artificial Intelligence, Embedded Systems and Adaptive Control. He has professional experience as Embedded Systems Engineer, Senior Academic Consultant in ICT (for educational institutes) and a Visiting Lecturer. He was educated at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland where he also started his research career 1996. He has also co-chaired the international conferences; IEEE-ICIAfS2016 and ICIEIE2013.
Research Interests and Collaborations
Research Interests
- Applications of AI (Business and Finances, Precision Agriculture)
- Fault Detection and Isolation in Complex Plants
- Higher Education Methods
Teaching
Present:
- EE 1101 Programing I
- EE5206 Software Projects
Past:
- EE2102 Object Oriented Programming
- EE5201 Computer Architecture
- EE5305 Sensors and Transducers (1/3)
- EE6304 Embedded Systems Design (1/2)
- EE6306 Operating Systems Programming
- EE8210 Intelligent Systems Design
- EE8207 High Performance computing
- EE7802 Undergraduate Projects
Visiting Lecturers
- Control Systems, Task Based Software Engineering, Analog Electronics, Server Side Programming, Concurrent Network Application, Research Methods
Publications
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[1] Smart Database for an Intelligent EarlyWarning System. K.Pirapaharan, S.H.K.K. Gunawickrama. Presented in the Wrap-up conference of Cana (CIDA) restore project, Kandy, March 27-28 2009.
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[2] Smart System for the Prediction of Natural Disasters. K.Pirapaharan, S.H.K.K. Gunawickrama. Presented in the 1st conference of CIDA restore project, Colombo, April 28-29 2008.
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[3] Leak Detection for Transmission Pipelines. Gunawickrama S.H.K.K. (2001). Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Automatic Control, Faculty of Electronics Telecommunication and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.(Cited by 3 International publications)
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[4] Leak Detection and Isolation for Transmission Pipelines via Nonlinear State Estimation. Kowalczuk Z. and Gunawickrama S.H.K.K.: Proc. IFAC SAFEPROCESS2000.Budapest, Hungary, pp. 943-948, 2000. 1073-1078, 2001.(Cited by 16 International publications)
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[5] Leak Detection for Transmission Pipelines Under Varying Operational Conditions. Kowalczuk Z. and Gunawickrama S.H.K.K.: Proc. 7th IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotic (MARR2001). Miedzyzdroje, Poland, pp. 1073-1078, 2001.
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[6] Gas Pipeline Diagnostics Based on Nonlinear State Estimation. Kowalczuk Z. and Gunawickrama S.H.K.K.: Proc. 4th-National Conference on Industrial Process Diagnostics (DPP99). Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, pp. 43-46, 1999.
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[7] Leak Detection for Pipelines via a Model-based Cross-correlation Technique. Kowalczuk Z. and Gunawickrama S.H.K.K.: Pomiary Automatyka Kontrola. No. 4, pp. 140-146, 1998.
Contributions and Awards
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