B.Sc. Eng. (Moratuwa), M.Sc. (Moratuwa), Ph.D. (UNIGE and IIT, Italy), MIEEE
Designation :
Senior Lecturer
Extension :
3324
Email:
jayathu@uom.lkMy research interests include Humanoids/Robotics, Electronic Systems, FPGA/DSP/GPU based systems, Embedded Systems, Computational Vision, Stereo Vision, and Vision Heads.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Genoa / Italian Institute of Technology ,2009 Humanoid Robotics
Master of Engineering
University of Moratuwa ,2007 Electronics
Bachelor of Science in Engineering
University of Moratuwa ,2004 Electronic & Telecommunication
Teaching
- Electronics I -Undergraduate -2015
- Electronics II -Undergraduate -2016
Administrative Activities
- Semester 4 coordinator -Semester 4 coordinator (2016 To date)
- Semester 3 coordinator -Semester 3 coordinator (2012 To 2016)
- Workshop incharge -Workshop incharge (2012 To date)
- Time table committee member -Time table committee member (2012 To date)
Honours and Awards
2004 | Sri Lanka Ministry of Higher Education Scholarship Mahapola Merit Scholarship |
2008 | IIT (Italian Institute of Technology) fellowship |
Conferences
- Wijesinghe, R. and Vithanage, K. and Tissera, D. and Xavier, A. and Fernando, S. and Samarawickrama, J., “Transferring Domain Knowledge with an Adviser in Continuous Tasks”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2021
- Uthayakumar, T. and Rifa, M.R.A.M. and Samarawickrama, J.G., “Teleoperation of a Robotic Arm through Tactile Sensing, Visual and Haptic Feedback”, 2020 5th International Conference on Control and Robotics Engineering, ICCRE 2020, 2020
- Wijesinghe, Y.M. and Samarawickrama, J.G. and Dias, D., “Hardware and Software Co-Design for Object Detection with Modified ViBe Algorithm and Particle Filtering Based Object Tracking”, 2019 IEEE 14th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems: Engineering for Innovations for Industry 4.0, ICIIS 2019 – Proceedings, 2019
- Cicuttin, A. and Crespo, M.L. and Mannatunga, K.S. and Samarawickrama, J.G. and Abdallah, N. and Sabet, P.B., “HyperFPGA: A possible general purpose reconfigurable hardware for custom supercomputing”, 2016 International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, ICAEES 2016, 2017
- Cicuttin, A. and Crespo, M.L. and Mannatunga, K.S. and Samarawickrama, J.G. and Khare, K.M. and Abeytunge, S. and Reaz, M.B.I. and Magnasco, M.O., “HiCCE-128: An open hardware FMC module for High-Channel Count Electrophysiology”, 2016 International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, ICAEES 2016, 2017
- Dilhara, M. and Samarawickrama, J. and Elvitigala, S., “Sensor platform for non-invasive ubiquitous current sensing”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sensing Technology, ICST, 2016
- Gamage, T.D. and Samarawickrama, J.G. and Rodrigo, R. and Pasqual, A.A., “Image filtering with MapReduce in pseudo-distribution mode”, MERCon 2015 – Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference, 2015
- Karunaratne, K.G.W. and Wickramasinghe, P.U. and Samarawickrama, J.G., “GPU based acceleration for Fergus’ image deblurring algorithm”, 2014 7th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability: “Sharpening the Future with Sustainable Technology”, ICIAfS 2014, 2014
- Gamage, T.D. and Samarawickrama, J.G. and Pasqual, A.A., “GPU based non-overlapping multi-camera vehicle tracking”, 2014 7th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability: “Sharpening the Future with Sustainable Technology”, ICIAfS 2014, 2014
- Karunaratne, M. and Samarawickrama, J., “Low rank matrix estimation using robust principal component analysis on FPGA”, 2014 7th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability: “Sharpening the Future with Sustainable Technology”, ICIAfS 2014, 2014
- Jayamanne, D.J. and Samarawickrama, J. and Rodrigo, R., “Appearance based tracking with background subtraction”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Science and Education, ICCSE 2013, 2013
- Chandrapala, T.N. and Cabral, L.M.A.P. and Ahangama, S. and Ambagahawaththa, T.S. and Samarawickrama, J.G., “Hardware implementation of motion blur removal”, Proceedings – 22nd International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL 2012, 2012
- Gamage, T. and Samarawickrama, J.G. and Pasqual, A.A., “GPU-based detection of stopping vehicles”, International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, ICTer 2012 – Conference Proceedings, 2012
- Samarawickrama, J.G. and Sabatini, S.P., “Version and vergence control of a stereo camera head by fitting the movement into the Hering’s law”, Proceedings – Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, CRV 2007, 2007
- Sumanasena, M.G.B. and Samarawickrama, J.G. and Pasqual, A.A., “Mobile stereo camera platform for active vision”, 1st International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, ICIIS 2006, 2006