Achievements – Department of Computer Engineering

Team IT crowd wins the championship in Yes Hub Bootcamp’21

webmaster — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 07:23:00 +0000

The Team IT Crowd consisted of Sandun Kodagoda,Adithya Gallage and Denuka Jayaweera, undergraduates of Department computer Engineering became champions in the YES hub boot camp ’21 organized by the Yes Hub, Venture Frontier along with the US Embassy.

This Entrepreneurial , Innovation and Pitching event had around 50 teams participating in the event after a preliminary qualification held offline. The competitors participated in the competition ranged from MSc Holders to Undergraduates. after the first round the team IT Crowd got selected to Top Six and after the second round they eventually went on to win the
completion. The Event was graced by more than 15 national and international entrepreneurs businessmen who appreciated the effort thrown in by the team.

The Idea Pitched by the Team IT crowd started as their second year project in the university which is about developing the concept of smart lockers.

Third year undergraudate in the award winning team working on Cloud Atlas: an innovative project to build biodegradable sanitary products

webmaster — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 07:17:48 +0000

Three third year undergraduates from the University of Peradeniya have invented a hundred percent Bio-Degradable Sanitizer bottle and Sanitary wipe package to combat this issue. Navodya Kumari Ekanayake, a third-year medical student; Shakthi Senarathne, a third-year medical student; Denuka Jayaweera, a third-year engineering undergraduate from the Department of Computer Engineering are working on this team CLOUD ATLAS.

Their aims are to make an impact on environmental conservation, to contribute towards United Nations Sustainable development goals three six nine and twelve, to give a sustainable alternative for sanitary needs in the market, to reduce the usage of polythene and plastics and to take a value out of banana stem which is thrown away after harvesting.

Plastic usage has been abused and adulterated by mankind, stepping towards the highest risks of pollution. The net increment of usage hasn’t been calculated for the year 2020, but undoubtedly an exponential rise can be predicted. Disposal and the 3R method seems to be in the air, but plastic landfill is the commonest problem well known, but solutions are not yet properly addressed by any responsible authority.

Due to the covid pandemic, the usage of sanitiser bottles increased drastically. If five million [which is less than twenty-five percent of the population] people discard one sanitiser bottle each per two weeks, the number of sanitiser bottles discarded per month is approximately ten million bottles. If so the total amount of plastic landfill added by sanitiser bottles per month equals the total number of bottles discarded into the mean weight of one bottle which eventually add up to around three hundred thousand kilograms of plastics per month only by sanitiser bottles.

They figured out this directly affected the usage of polythene and plastic in Sri Lanka. And to add to that normal bottle of sanitiser takes about four hundred and fifty to six hundred years to get decomposed, other than that there was no such biodegradable product in the market similar to this not only in Sri Lanka but in the global context as well.

The prototyped product was the first bottle model and sanitary wipe in the world, to be made out of a banana stem as the main ingredient. All these products have a net zero percent environmental impact, Which decomposes completely within one month. They chose banana paper over normal recycled paper, to address this environmental impact issue. Even recycled paper demands an additional cost of cutting trees, which is harmful to the prevailing situation of the country. They have aimed at minimal deforestation and carbon footprint in the production process.

Recently, bamboo came as a substitute for normal trees in China and East Asian countries. But in countries like Sri Lanka, bamboo cannot be used as a substitute ingredient for paper, as we don’t have considerable bamboo cultivation targeting production. Bamboo is highly resilient against soil erosion, especially in river beds. Banana has the same properties found in bamboo and is easily found in Sri Lanka. Add to that the fineness of a banana is better than bamboo (with an average fineness of two thousand four hundred Nano meters). Worldwide there is a good market for bamboo wipes due to their softness. Therefore banana would be better

The team emerged as the ideation champions in Thinkwave 2.0 organized by the University of Moratuwa, Overall runners up in Thinkwave 2.0, champions of Pera Inventra 2021 and second runners up of YES Youth Entrepreneurship Summit organized by the University of Sri Jayawaradenapura.

Their work has also being featured in local newspaper.

Denuka Jayaweera
Shakthi Senarathne
Navodya Ekanayake

Winner at Stay Home Coding Challenge

webmaster — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 05:52:10 +0000

Sudam Kalpage, a second-year(E16) undergraduate of the Department of Computer Engineering, has secured the 1st place at the ‘Stay Home Coding Challenge’, organized by Optimize Solutions. In this competition, the contestants were tested for their coding skills.

Further Details :https://www.optimizesolutions.lk/Event

Second runners up in HackDown 2020

webmaster — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 05:47:36 +0000

Thilini Deshika and Rusiru Thushara, two undergraduates from the E16 batch of Department of Computer Engineering have been able to emerge as the 2nd runners up in HackDown 2020, organised by IEEE Women In Engineering Affinity Group of University of Moratuwa. The competition was a three-hour coding competition held on the 25th of April 2020

https://www.facebook.com/WIEUOM/posts/1388246401359418

The win at DataStorm 1.0

webmaster — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 11:23:17 +0000

The team Data Crunchers, a group of students from the Department of Computer Engineering was able to emerge as the 2nd runners up at Data Storm v1.0 which was organized by the Rotaract clubs of University of Moratuwa and University of Colombo and held on the 29th of February 2020 at the John Keells Holdings Auditorium. The team consisted of Imesh Ekanayake(E15), Heshan Dissanayake (E16) and Hiruna Samarakoon(E14). 21 teams have been filtered out from an initial selection round where 103 teams competed in an online kaggle platform. The teams were selected to the final round based on the performance on the kaggle platform and a detailed report submitted on their techniques.

At the final round, the participants have been given a task of predicting churning customers of keels supermarket chains. The team DataCrunches has been able to achieve a training accuracy of 88% and testing accuracy of 83% by combining different techniques with an ensemble method.

Team Testing 123 consisting of Chamara Gunarathne, Shehan Perera and Prabhath Bandara has also been qualified for the final round of the same competition.

The department congratulates both the teams on this achievements.

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 )

Department students shine at HackStat 2.0 as winners

webmaster — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 05:16:35 +0000

Team biteCode consisting of Gihan Jayathilake, Suren Sritharan, Harshana Sumedha and Dhanushki Mapitigama (final year undergraduates of the department) emerged winners from the retail category at the hackStat 2.0 which was organized by the Stat Circle, Department of Statistics, University of Colombo to promote data science in Sri Lanka.

Team eyeCoders, a group of second-year students; Thilini Deshika, Yasitha Bandara Herath, Rusiru Thushara, Sudam Kalapage and Damsy De Silva had been able to secure the 2nd runners up from the insurance category in the same competition.

The competition was held at Microsoft Sri Lanka on the 26th of October 2019. Twenty teams have been selected from a large number of teams that participated in the first round which was held online. In the first round, the competitors had to work with a challenging data set consisting of data of visitors to a website. The final round was held under two categories namely retail and insurance in which the undergraduates of the Department of Computer Engineering were able to grab the top places from both categories.

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

Team EyeCoders

Three teams make it to top ten in Sri Lankan scoreboard of the IEEEXtreme 13.0 coding competition

webmaster — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 10:24:38 +0000

Undergraduates of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya has been able to secure three out of the top ten places of the SriLankan Scoreboard at the IEEEXtreme 13.0 which concluded on the 20th of October 2019.

IEEEXtreme is a global challenge in which teams around the world compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to solve a set of intensive programming problems.

This time, the competition was fired up with the enthusiasm of the contestants and their strong competitiveness. TeambiteCode of Gihan Jayathilaka, Suren Sritharan and Harshana Sumedha, a group of final year students from the Department of Computer Engineering who fought a tight competition with the winning team till the very last moment emerged as the first runner up of Sri Lankan rankings and 67th of the world rankings.

Team InterGreat consisting of Rahala Nanayakkara, Praditha Alwis, and Mahela Pandukabhaya, a group of students from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and First-Year General Program was able to finish the competition by being the 5th in Sri Lankan Ranking.

Team reachout, a group of second-year students from the Department of Computer Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kavindu Hearth, Dinidu Udana and Isuru Pamuditha were able to secure the 8th place from the national rankings of IEEEXtreme 13.0.

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