Umesha Sandarenu

Ms. Umesha Sandarenu

Lecturer

MSc (Reading, IIT in collab. Robert Gordon University, UK), BSc. Eng. (Hons) (Ruhuna) IEEE, ECSL, IESL

Contact info

0701313191/ 0773864372

umesha@eie.ruh.ac.lk / mawella.umeshasandarenu@gmail.com

About

Umesha Sandarenu is a Lecturer attached to the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering. She obtained her BSc. Eng. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka with First Class Honours in 2017. She has worked as an instructor and a temporary lecturer at the same department after the graduation. During her undergraduate studies she was an active member engaging in various faculty events of IEEE, IAS and EIES and the founding chapter chair of Industry Applications Society IEEE Chapter at University of Ruhuna.

Umesha Sandarenu has worked as the Engineer – Data Analysis & AI attached to Talent Development Centre at SLTMobitel in her previous employment. Currently, she is pursuing her Master of Business Analytics degree at the Informatics Institute of Technology (IIT) in collab with Robert Gordon University, mastering her knowledge in Data Science, Machine Learning and Business Analytics.

Research Areas

Machine Learning
Big Data
Sentiment Analysis
Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Data Warehousing

Teaching

Publications

Papers in Local Research Forums

M.K.U Sandarenu ,N.M.A.U. Madusanka, P.A.T. Janaraj , H.W.H.L. Walpita ,2018. Performance Analysis of an LED Based Underwater Visible Light Communication (UVLC) System. 5th Annual Research Symposium (ARS)-2018, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka 4th January 2018

P.A.T. Janaraj , N.M.A.U. Madusanka ,M.K.U Sandarenu , H.W.H.L. Walpita ,2018. Design and implementation of an LED based underwater optical communication system for scuba divers. IET Present around the World (PATW) 2018, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka 20th May 2018

Talks and presentations