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A delegation from Shanghai University of Electric Power visited the Department of Electrical Engineering on 5^th December 2019. The delegation included Ms. Zhang Chuan - University Vice President, Mr. Yang Xiu - Vice Director, Innovation Center of Energy and Electric Power, Mr. Bi Zhongqin - Vice Dean, Computer Science and Technology College, Ms. Xu Xinyan - Vice Director, ����ͷ�� Affairs Office, Ms. Zhao Yan - Vice Dean, Electronics and Information Engineering College, Ms. Luo – Staff, International Exchange and Cooperation Office.��

Dr. Jayatunga attended the 9th IEEE ISGT conference which was held from 29th September to 3rd October 2019 at the University of POLITECHNICA, Bucharest, Romania with her joint PhD candidate Dilhani Chathurangi, to present the paper titled “Evaluation of Maximum Solar PV Penetration: Deterministic Approach for Overvoltage Curtailments”.��

Prof. Sisil Kumarawadu has been bestowed with an honorary position of Overseas Distinguished Professor in the College of Electronics and Information Engineering of the Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP).

Chapa Sirithunge, a final year PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, ����ͷ�� attended and presented at the 14th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2019) which was held from December 18-20, 2019 at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. Chapa is a member of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group led by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana.

Tharushi Kalinga, an MSc Research Student at Department of Electrical Engineering, ����ͷ�� attended the Second Nepal Winter School in AI held from 10^th to 20^th December 2019 at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science (GCES) in Pokhara, Nepal.

Sahan Priyanayana, a Mphil student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, ����ͷ�� 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 “An Exploratory Study on Proxemics Preferences of Humans in Accordance with Attributes of Service Robots ’’ was presented at the 28^th 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, ����ͷ��. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at SUTD, Singapore.

Chapa Sirithunge, a final year PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, ����ͷ�� 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 “Artificial Intelligence for Modern Society” 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, ����ͷ�� 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.��