Dr. K. Sarveswaran has been awarded a grant in April 2024 for the work related to “Developing a Sri Lankan Tamil Corpus” through the Research Scholar Programme. This grant worth USD 35,000.00 will be helpful to develop applications using Sri Lankan Tamil language qualities.
Dr. K. Sarveswaran is part of a team comprising members from the University of Konstanz, Germany, the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, and the University of Engineering Technology, Pakistan, which secured a grant in April 2024 for the project titled ‘DigSAL: Addressing the Digital Divide for South Asian Languages.’ This grant enables the recruitment of research students dedicated to advancing language technology research and supports the mobilization of project staff to Germany and Pakistan for various project-related workshops and meetings.
Prof. A. Ramanan, in collaboration with Prof. Saman Halgamuge, Dr. Rashindrie Divanka Perera, and Dr. Tamasha Malepathirana from the University of Melbourne, successfully co-authored a competitive research grant proposal. As a result, they secured a USD 24,000 grant from Google Research to implement exploreCSR, providing undergraduate computing students with a rich research experience. The grant is officially available from October 2023 to November 2024.
Ms. Samantha Tharani Jeyakumar (Lecturer in Computer Science) was awarded a student participation grant to the 46th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks for her paper titled as “Graph based Visualisation Techniques for Analysis of Blockchain Transactions” virtually hosted in Edmonton, Canada in October 2021.
Dr. A. Ramanan and Mr. K. Sarveswaran being as co-investigators with the principal investigator Prof. S.N. Surendran have received a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Sri Lanka to carry out research on the Development of a Mobile-based Dengue Monitoring and Warning System, under the grant No. RPHS/2016/D 02. [2017-2019]
Dr. A. Ramanan received a research grant from the National Research Council (NRC) Sri Lanka to carry out research on Training Images vs Discriminative Features on the Construction of Codebook to Recognise Visual Objects, under the grant No. NRC 15-128. [2015-2017]
Dr. E.Y.A. Charles, Dr. S. Mahesan, and Dr. A. Ramanan have received a grant from the Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) of Sri Lanka to carry out collaborative research with the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) on “Tamil Digitisation Project”, under the grant No. ICTA/AFC/HIP/28/02. [2013-2014]
Ms. Barathy, G. received a grant from the Higher Education for the Twenty-first Century (HETC) Project implemented at the University of Jaffna to continue her PhD programme at the University of Southampton, UK. [2012 – 2013]
Dr. A. Ramanan received a grant from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No 216529, PinView Project, to undertake a research on “Object Recognition with Eye movement features”. [June – August 2010]
Mr. A. Ramanan received a grant from the School of Electronics, University of Southampton to continue his PhD programme at the University of Southampton, UK. [2008 – 2009]
Mr. A. Ramanan received a grant from the University of Sheffield to pursue an MPhil/PhD programme at the Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK. [2006 – 2007]
Mr. A. Ramanan received a grant through the World Bank funded IRQUE Project at the University of Jaffna, to pursue a PhD programme at the University of Sheffield and thereafter at the University of Southampton, UK [2006 – 2009]
Mr. K. Thabotharan received a grant through the Swedish International Development and Corporation Agency (SIDA) Project implemented at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka, to pursue a split-site PhD programme at the UCSC, Sri Lanka and Uppsala University, Sweden. [2004 – 2010]
Mr. M. Sabesan received a grant through the Swedish International Development and Corporation Agency (SIDA) Project implemented at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka, to pursue a split-site PhD programme at the UCSC, Sri Lanka and Uppsala University, Sweden. [2004 – 2010]
Mr. S. Suthakar received a grant through the Swedish International Development and Corporation Agency (SIDA) Project implemented at the University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC), Sri Lanka, to pursue a split-site PhD programme at the UCSC, Sri Lanka and Uppsala University, Sweden. [2004 – 2010]
Mr. E. Y. A. Charles received a grant from Manufacturing Engineering Centre (MEC), Cardiff University, to pursue a PhD programme at the Cardiff University, UK. [2003 – 2007]
Dr. S. Mahesan was awarded a Research Fellowship by the Commonwealth to work as visiting research fellow for a year at the Cardiff University, Wales, UK. [1999]
