2019 – Department of Computer Engineering

2nd runners up in Biomedical Engineering Design Competition

webmaster — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 12:03:22 +0000

Team CrunchCode was able to emerge as the 2nd runners up at Brainstorm 2019, Sri Lanka’s Premier Biomedical Engineering Design Competition, organized by the IEEE EMBS Student Branch Chapter at University of Moratuwa. The team which consisted of Hiruna Samarakoon, Anjana Senanayaka, Sanoj Punchihewa of the Faculty of Engineering, Sachith Keragala from the Faculty of Medicine and Hasindu Gamarachchi from University of New South Wales, Australia as the mentor was recognized as the 2nd runners up for their project of a portable real-time DNA analysis toolkit. Their toolkit along with the server that manages devices that run the toolkit enables simultaneous sequencing and analysis of DNA reads. DNA reads can be analyzed for DNA methylation, event alignment and for intermediate tasks like reads alignment, sorting, and indexing. The competition was held on the 7th of December 2019 at the IESL Auditorium.
Among the top 10 were two other teams from the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya, the team testing123 that consists of Kaveesha Dilshani, Chamara Gunarathne, and Shehan Perera from the final year and team Genesis 1.0 of Avishka Dhananjaya, Prageeth Savinda and Sewwandie Nanayakkara from the 3rd year.

Department graduate receives Bronze medal for Best Research Undergraduate project

webmaster — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:38:55 +0000

Theekshana Dissanayake, an immediate graduate of the department (E/13) has been awarded the bronze medal for best research undergraduate project in Sri Lanka by the Institute of Applied Statistics Srilanka (IASSL). It was awarded for his final year project based work titled “An ensemble learning approach for improving electrocardiogram based human emotion recognition”, which was supervised by Prof. Roshan Ragel . Theekshana’s work has also been recently published in MDPI sensors journal ( Impact Factor 3.031 ).

Final year students win at iHack 5.0

webmaster — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:29:09 +0000

Team Testing123 of Prabhath Bandara, Kaveesha Dilshani, Chamara Gunarathne and Shehan Perera has been able to emerge as the 1st runner up at iHack 5.0 Inter-University hackathon organized by University of Colombo School of Computing ISACA Student Group. 15 teams have been sorted out by considering all the project proposals submitted and the top 5 teams were selected to the final round after 24 hours of software development. The event was held on the 26th and 27th of October at the UCSC premises.

https://www.facebook.com/events/514285116076049/

http://ucscisg.club/ihack/5.0/

News by : Kaveesha Dilshani (Editor,ACES 2019/20 )

Pera Undergraduates Mark Their Name in Mora Xtreme 4.0.

webmaster — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:33:45 +0000

Team InterGreat, a group of second-year students of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya (UoP) has been the winner surpassing around 300 teams at MoraXtreme 4.0 which was held on the 12th of October 2019. The team consisted of Rahal Nanayakkara , Praveen Danajaya and Parditha Alwis from Departments of Electrical & Electronic Engineering and Computer Engineering from UoP. Also, team biteCode : Suren Sritharan, Gihan Jayathilaka and Harshana Sumedha, final year students of the Department of Computer Engineering, UoP has secured 4th place at the same competition.

MoraXtreme 4.0 which was organized by the IEEE Student Branch of University of Moratuwa had around 300 teams in the initial round, from which 150 teams were filtered out for the final round after 6 hours of online coding.

The final round, which lasted for 12 hours of extreme coding came to end with University of Peradeniya Undergraduates marking their spot at the top of the leading board.

News by: Kaveesha Dilshani (Editor, Aces 2019/20)

Second year students of the department shine at IESL Techno Hackathon-Xtreme

webmaster — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 08:30:35 +0000

Team Eye Coders, a group of second-year students from the Department of Computer Engineering has emerged second runners up at the IESL Techno Hackathon-Xtreme which was held on the 12th of October at the BMICH premises. The competition which was organized by the IESL Student Chapter of the University of Moratuwa in collaboration with IESL-YMS, had over 16 teams from eight leading State Universities of Sri Lanka. The department congratulates Rusiru Thushara, NuwanPiyarathna, Nayana Thilanka of the Team Eye Coders for their victory and wishes them all the best for their future endeavors.

News by : Kaveesha Dilshani (Editor, ACES 2019/20)

Department undergraduates at the finals of HackX

webmaster — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 08:28:03 +0000

Team 405 Found and team Cybernics from the Department of Computer Engineering has been able to get selected for the top ten teams at the hackX 2019, an inter-university startup challenge organized by the IMSSA, University of Kelaniya. 30 teams have been filtered out for an initial pitch from all the proposals submitted for the competition. After the initial pitch, the top ten teams were selected for the final round where the finalists were given a 04 weeks time period to develop and implement their ideas. During this period,team 405 consisting of Anandi Karunaratne, Chalani Sankalpana, Imesh Ekanayake, Pubudu Premathilaka and Suneth Samarasinghe worked on implementing their idea of an automated bike sharing system where university students could borrow bicycles through a mobile application while the team Cybernics consisting of Ranushka LM, Pamoda WAD, Ishanthi DS and Shirly Ekanayake continued on their idea of an automated hydroponics system, which can automatically monitor and control a system of growing plants in a nutrient-rich water-based environment remotely through a web and a mobile application.Department congratulates all who were able to make it to the top of the competition and wish them all the best in improving and developing their products further.
More information about the competition can be found at http://www.hackx.lk

News reported by : Kaveesha Dilshani (Editor/ACES 19/20)

“Best Data Engineer” award at Datathon

webmaster — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 06:47:53 +0000

A group of students from the final year batch of the department has been awarded the “best data engineer” award and 4th place at the Datathon: Hackathon for data enthusiasts organized by Dialog and Axiata Analytics, Sri Lanka. The event was held in Water’s edge, Colombo during (2-4)/8/2019 with the participation of 100 individuals: 20 teams consisting of data science industry professionals and university students. The participants for the event have been selected based on an online questionnaire on data science basics, and the teams have been formed arbitrarily from the selected participants. During the hackathon, the teams worked on a 32 hours on-site “smart city planing” pattern recognition challenge
For further information on the competition visit the official site of the hackathon: https://www.axiata.com/dataunleashed/

Department congratulates all in the team including (left to right) Pankayaraj Pathmanathan (ce.pdn), Tharsanan Kurukulasingam (cse.mrt) , Gihan Jayatilaka (ce.pdn), Dhanushki Mapitigama (ce.pdn), Mabeesha Wijekoon (ce.pdn).

*ce.pdn : Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya
*cse.mrt: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa

Coins Grand Challenge 2019

webmaster — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 06:36:08 +0000

Chathurangi won the Undergraduate Competition for her product on Soil Quality Analyzer (https://vimeo.com/342017284). Chathurangi was also awarded the COINS Investment Prize, which goes to the entry that the judges consider to be the most promising business idea. ACES – Association of Computer Engineering Students and the Department of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya wish her all the very best!

Her achievement being praised in media : https://epaper.dailynews.lk/?tday=2019/07/18&id=pg25&ver=pro

Her journey with this project started with last year’s ACES Hackathon, an event organized by ACES – Association of Computer Engineering Students. ACES Hackathon last year was sponsored by ISM APAC, WSO2, TIQRI Corporation, Creative Software, Zone24x7, Sysco LABS Sri Lanka, ReadMe and GAUGE Newsletter. ACES – Association of Computer Engineering Students would also like to place in record how DirectFN Sri Lanka was instrumental in the previous years on the growth of the ACES Hackathon event.

Department alumni shines at TopCoder

webmaster — Tue, 28 May 2019 07:02:02 +0000

Topcoder is regarded to be world’s largest network of designers, developers and data scientists which also acts as a platform for making their services available for enterprises. At the moment number of members in Topcoder exceeds 1 million.

Topcoder 18 was a competition with the presence of 81 finalists from 34 countries and happened in Dallas, Texas, USA. Among the participants and winners were the alumni of Deparment of Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya.

Further details on Topcoder 18 competition and winners :

https://tco18.topcoder.com/