Sahan Priyanayana, a Mphil student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, 成人头条 attended and presented at the IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference which was held from November 12 - 14, 2019 in The Depok City, Indonesia. Sahan is a member of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group led by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana.
A research paper titled 鈥淎n Exploratory Study on Proxemics Preferences of Humans in Accordance with Attributes of Service Robots 鈥欌 was presented at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) held from Oct 14 - 18 in New Delhi, India by Mrs. S. M. B. P. Samarakoon, who was a research assistant at the Center of Advanced Robotics, 成人头条. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at SUTD, Singapore.
Chapa Sirithunge, a final year PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, 成人头条 participated at the Knowledge Sharing Program organized by the National Science Foundation. The event was held on 24th September at the National Science Foundation Auditorium. She delivered a speech on 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence for Modern Society鈥 on behalf of the National Science Foundation. Students, staff members and general public interested in the field of AI witnessed the event.
H.M. Ravindu T. Bandara, B.M.S.S. Basnayake and K.S. Priyanayana postgraduate research students of intelligent service robotics group, Department of Electrical Engineering, presented three research papers at 19th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing ICAISC 2019 held from 21-25th June in Mercure Zakopane Kasprowy Hotelm, Zakopane, Poland.
A work by the researchers from the Intelligent Service Robotics group- Department of Electrical Engineering, 成人头条 has been accepted at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2019. IROS is a premier internal conference in the field of Robotics and it is in first 20 sources of Special category for Robotics in Google Scholar Metrics with h5 index of 58 . This year the conference will be held on November 4 - 8, in the Venetian Macao, Macau, China.听
Sachi Natasha Edirisinghe, a research scholar at Intelligent Service Robotics听 Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering attended the 1st Machine Learning Research School (MLRS) 2019. The event was held from 4-11 August at Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), Bangkok, Thailand. 听The aim of this event was to provide a basic understanding of machine learning to participants. The program included tutorials, practical sessions, poster presentations and social events. 听The tutorials were conducted by world-renowned machine learning experts.
Chapa Sirithunge, a doctoral student from the Intelligent Service Robotics group- Department of Electrical Engineering, 成人头条 attended The Advanced Course on AI (ACAI) 2019 and the 3rd Summer School on Cognitive Robotics, summer schools this year. ACAI was organized by the Technical University of Crete and funded by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence EurAI. The summer school was held in the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece from 1-5 July 2019.
A special guest lecture on "Wind and Solar Power Development: Where is Europe Heading to?" was done by Eng. Erik Lysen, Director of LYSEN Consulting Engineer, at the Seminar Room, Department of Electrical Engineering. He is specialized in energy conservation. Renewable energy, and cleaner use of fossil fuels.听
Prof. Manukid Parnichkun, Professor at Mechatronics Program, Asian Institute of Technology visited the Department of Electrical Engineering and delivered a talk on 鈥淎dvanced Control of Robotics and Mechatronics Systems鈥 at the seminar room of the department. Postgraduate opportunities at AIT were also discussed on his visit. 听
A technical paper based on the undergraduate project work of a 13th batch Electrical Engineering students, Shehani De Seram, Maheeshan Kumara, Gayashan Madhushanka, and Kasun Ranasinghe Sagara, titled 鈥淭echno-economic Feasibility Assessment of Implementation of Solar Tracking for Utility Scale Solar Photovoltaic Plants in Sri Lanka鈥 was presented at the IEEE GTD Asia 2019 in Bangkok.
