Nilmantha Wijesekara - DEIE

Mr. Nilmantha Wijesekara

Lecturer

BScEng (Hons) (Ruhuna), AMIE (SL)

Contact info

+94710651856

nilmantha@eie.ruh.ac.lk

Room E214

About

Mr. Shehan Nilmantha Wijesekara is a Lecturer attached to the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering (DEIE), Faculty of Engineering (FoE), University of Ruhuna since 2018. He was a former instructor in the same department from December 2017- September 2018. He received his BScEng (Hons) Degree with first class distinction from FoE University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka in 2017. He has been awarded with Mallika De Mel memorial gold medal for highest OGPA of FoE and Dr. A.D.V. Premaratna memorial gold medal for highest OGPA of DEIE for his Bachelor’s degree from the university of Ruhuna in 2017. He won best student award for excelling in Electronic Engineering. He has also been awarded Migara Ranatunga award for industrial training and E.W. Karunaratna award for the undergraduate project from IESL. He has also received Chinese ambassador scholarship for academic excellence in 2017. He had gained both teaching and research experience for more than 3 years in DEIE in all Electronic, Software and Telecommunication domains.

Research Areas

Millimeter wave communication
Digital Electronics
FPGA programming
Data Fusion
Machine Learning
Image Processing
Computer Vision
Channel Coding
Video Streaming
MIMO Systems
Computer Security
Deep Learning
Underwater Acoustics
Reinforcement Learning
Gaming
Automation
Robotics
Biomedical Engineering

Teaching

EE5201 Computer Architecture
EE3302 Data Structures and Algorithms
EE3301 Analog Electronics
EE4202 Database Systems
EE6301 Communication Systems
EE6206 Operating Systems and Programming
EE5305 Sensors and Transducers

Publications

Peer Reviewed Indexed Journal Articles

Presentations

Contributions and Awards

Local Contributions

Instructor In charge for 7th semester laboratories of DEIE – 2018
Instructor In charge for 6th semester laboratories of DEIE – 2018
Instructor In charge for 8th semester laboratories of DEIE – 2018
Developed the laboratory manual for Optical Fibre Communication – 2019

Scholarships

Chinese Ambassador’s scholarship – 2017

Awards

Mallika De Mel Memorial Gold Medal from UoR – 2018
Dr. A.D.V. Premaratne Memorial Gold Medal from UoR – 2018
Best Student Award from UoR – 2018
Migara Ranatunga Trust Award from IESL -2018
Eng. E.W. Karunaratna Award from IESL- 2018

Projects