Awards and Scholarships

Teaching Awards

• Newcastle Teaching Award, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, 2016.

• Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy (HEA), United Kingdom, 2016.

Research Awards

• Outstanding Mobile Application Design Award for Smart Metering of Multi-Utilities (with Derek Ng, Iris Ng, Anurag Sharma, and Wai Lok Woo), 2017 – Energy Market Authority (EMA), Public Utilities Board (PUB), and SP Group, Singapore.

• First Prize Winner, Siemens Smart Grid Innovation Contest, Berlin, Germany, 2011 – “Multi-Agent System for Operation of a Smart Grid” and “Autonomous Distributed Power System Restoration”.

• Third Prize, Best Research Poster Presentation, IEEE PES Graduate Student Workshop, Singapore, 2010.

Scholarships

• Postdoctoral Research Scholarship, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, September 2012 – September 2013.

• NUS Research Scholarship for Doctor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Singapore, August 2007 – July 2011.

• Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka, January 2001 – February 2005.

Competitive Conference Support Grants

• IEEE CIS Student Travel Grant Award, IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, New Orleans, United States, 2011.

• IEEE PES Conference Support Grant, IEEE PES Singapore Chapter, for IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, New Orleans, United States, 2011.

• IEEE PES Conference Support Grant, IEEE PES Singapore Chapter, for IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies, Singapore, 2008.