Awards

Awards/Scholarships and Research Project Grants

Grants

Senate research grant SRC/LT/2016/07 (Long-term), University of Moratuwa

– 2016 (LKR 1 million)

Senate research grant SRC/LT/2017/11 (Long-term), University of Moratuwa

– 2017 (LKR 1.5 million)

Senate research grant SRC/LT/2019/18 (Long-term), University of Moratuwa

– 2019 (LKR 1.5 million)

Senate research grant SRC/ST/2019/07(Short-term), University of Moratuwa

– 2019 (LKR 0.3 million)

Outstanding Research Performance Award, University of Moratuwa (2014 - todate)

STEPI (Science and Technology Policy Institute) Fellowship Grant (2014)

SICSA Summer School Grant (2009)

SICSA Research Conference Grant (2010), (2012)

SICSA Prize Studentship (Scottish Funding Council) : 2009 to 2012

Department of CSE, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, Merit Scholarship for M.Sc. studies : 2009 to 2012

Awards

 ·  (Best Paper Award) D. Senarath, S. Tharinda, M. Vishvajith, S. Rasnayaka, S. Wickramanayake and D. Meedeniya, "Re-evaluating Keystroke Dynamics for Continuous Authentication," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC), Belihuloya, Sri Lanka, 2023, pp. 202-207, doi:  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARC57651.2023.10145743. (Pdf)  -  'Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Vision Track’  (Presentation) 

·  (Best Paper Award) W. Nimalsiri, M. Hennayake, K. Rathnayake, T. D. Ambegoda and D. Meedeniya, "Automated Radiology Report Generation Using Transformers," Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC), Belihuloya, Sri Lanka, 2023, pp. 90-95, doi:  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICARC57651.2023.10145699. (Pdf) - Computer Vision and Image Processing Track  (Presentation) 

 ·  (Best Paper Award) L. Herath, D. Meedeniya, J. Marasingha and V. Weerasinghe, "Optimize Transfer Learning for Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification with Neuroimaging: A Comparative Study," 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC), Belihuloya, Sri Lanka, 2022, pp. 171-176, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICARC54489.2022.9753949.  - Data Science and Applications Track

 ·  (Best Paper Award) S. Jayasiriwardene, D. Meedeniya, "Interactive and Adaptive Learning Content Authoring Framework for an M-Learning Toolkit", 1st Conference on Online Teaching for Mobile Education (OT4ME!), Alcalá de Henares, Spain, 2021, pp. 153-160, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/OT4ME53559.2021.9638890.

· (Best paper) L. Herath, D. Meedeniya, M.A.J.C Marasingha, V. Weerasinghe, "Autism Spectrum Disorder Diagnosis Support Model Using InceptionV3", International Research Conference on Smart Computing and Systems Engineering (SCSE), Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021, pp. 1-7. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/SCSE53661.2021.9568314 - Smart Computing (SC) track

· (Best Paper Award) S. De Silva, S. Dayarathna, G. Ariyarathne, D.A. Meedeniya, S. Jayarathna, A. M. P. Michalek, G. Jayawardena, “A Rule-Based System for ADHD Identification using Eye Movement Data”, Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), IEEE explorer, Sri Lanka, 2019. pp.  538-543. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MERCon.2019.8818865 - Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation and Technology Management Track

· (Best Paper Award) D. Lenadora, A. Wickramarachchi, D.A. Meedeniya, V. Mallawaarachchi, I Perera, “An Adapter Architecture for Heterogeneous Data Processing in Bioinformatics Pipelines“ ,  Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), IEEE explorer, Sri Lanka, 2019. pp. 692-697. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MERCon.2019.8818781  – Software Engineering Track

· (Best Paper Award) K. Jayakodi, M. Bandara, D.A. Meedeniya, "An Automatic Classifier for Exam Questions with WordNet and Cosine Similarity", International Multidisciplinary Engineering Research Conference (MERCon2016), IEEE explorer, pp. 12-17, 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v11i04.5654  – Software Engineering Track

· Merit Award in the Tertiary (Technology) Category, National Best Quality ICT Awards – NBQSA 2016 (Taxi Master, Undergraduate student project supervision)

University Award for Academic Excellence, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2006

President Guide Award, Sri Lanka, 1998