Mr. S. Suthakar
- Senior Lecturer Gr.I
- B.Sc. [Hons] (Jaffna), M.Phil (Jaffna)
- sosuthakar@univ.jfn.ac.lk
- +94212218194
Research Interests:
- Internet of Things (IoT), Embedded Systems, and Robotics
- High-Performance and Distributed Computing
- Digital Image Processing
- Computer Graphics and Visual Computing
Academic Profile
Activities
Admin Roles
Awards
Publications
Teaching
Academic Profile
Mr. Somaskandan Suthakar
- M.Phil in Computer Science (Jaffna, Sri Lanka)
- B.Sc. Special in Computer Science, First Class (Jaffna, Sri Lanka)
Postgraduate Supervision
MSc
- Mr. Appudurai Ramalingam: “A Novel morphological method for segmenting tumour clusters in medical images”, PGIS, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. (2014 – 2016)
- Mr. Ariyaratnam Kanisto: “A model for personal voting guidance system for visually disabled people”, MSc in Computer Science, PGIS, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. (2014 – 2016)
Institutional Development
- Contributor in introducing new courses to Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Degree Programme, 2015 & 2016.
- Contributor in introducing the Extended Degree Programme, Bachelor of Science Honours in Applied Science in Computing, 2014.
- Developed Curriculum for Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2016.
- Developed Curriculum for Bachelor of Science Honours in Applied Science in Computing, Academic Year 2014/2015
- Developed Curriculum for Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Academic Year 2014/2015.
- Developed Curriculum for Bachelor of Science Degree Specialisation in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, Academic Year 2014/2015.
Resource person
- InnovateHer STEM Workshop – Vembadi Girls’ High School: Conducted a four-hour workshop for Grade 13 students on fundamental IoT concepts and advanced sensor-based projects, 4 August 2025.
- InnovateHer STEM Workshop – Vembadi Girls’ High School: Conducted a four-hour hands-on IoT workshop for students in Grades 6-10, introducing emerging technologies through practical activities, 1 August 2025.
- InnovateHer STEM Workshop – Vavuniya North Education Zone: Conducted a six-hour session on “IoT and Hands-on Arduino Programming” for 57 participants, including Grade 9-13 students and ICT teachers from seven schools, 10 July 2025.
- Workshop on IoT and AI for ICT Teachers: Conducted a six-hour hands-on session on “IoT Development through Arduino Programming” for approximately 40 ICT teachers. The workshop was organised in collaboration with the Jaffna Education Zone and IEEE CIS Student Branch Chapter, University of Jaffna, 28 June 2025.
- Professional Development Workshop for GIT Teachers – Northern Province: Served as a resource person and conducted a 2-hour and 40-minute IoT session, 12-13 June 2025.
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) High School Outreach Programme – Island Education Zone: Led a five-hour session on “IoT and Hands-on Arduino Programming” for approximately 100 participants, including around 80 G.C.E. (A/L) students and 20 ICT teachers from six schools, 10 June 2025.
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) High School Outreach Programme – Valikamam Education Zone: Led a six-hour session on “IoT and Hands-on Arduino Programming” for approximately 100 participants, including around 80 G.C.E. (A/L) students and 20 ICT teachers, 18 April 2025.
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) High School Outreach Programme – Thenmaradchy Education Zone: Conducted a six-hour session on “IoT and Hands-on Arduino Programming” for approximately 100 participants, including around 80 G.C.E. (A/L) students and 20 ICT teachers from 13 schools, 31 March 2025.
- IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) High School Outreach Programme – Vadamaradchy Education Zone: Conducted a six-hour session on “IoT and Hands-on Arduino Programming” for approximately 100 participants, including around 80 G.C.E. (A/L) students and 20 ICT teachers from nine schools, 13 March 2025.
- Workshop on IoT and Embedded Systems – Valikamam Education Zone: Conducted a one-day workshop on “Exploring IoT and Embedded Systems” for approximately 40 ICT teachers, introducing fundamental concepts and demonstrating practical applications, September 2024.
- IEEE Summer School on Computational Intelligence – University of Jaffna: Conducted a 3 and a half hour hands-on IoT training for 81 students representing various universities. The summer school was organised by the Department of Computer Science, University of Jaffna, 12-14 July 2023.
- IoT Workshop for School Students – IEEE Student Branch, University of Jaffna: Served as a resource person for a two-day IoT workshop involving 76 students and five teachers from nine schools in the Jaffna Education Zone, 1-2 April 2023.
- IoT Training for School Students and Teachers – Jaffna Education Zone: Delivered IoT training during a two-day workshop for approximately 85 school students and 10 teachers, 23-24 December 2022.
- Capacity Building Programme to the Sri Lanka Education Administrative Service Officials (ZDE, DDEs and ADEs ) (16 July 2022)
- ICT workshop for teachers – Organised by Jaffna Zonal Education Office (23 July 2016)
- ICT workshop for the teachers of Chundikkuli Girls College (April 2015)
- Workshop on ” Incorporating ICT Components in the Curricula” – Organised under UDG/HETC, UoJ (17 &18 Nov 2014)
- Workshop on “Excel for Academic Administration” – Organised under UDG/HETC (03 Nov 2014)
- Advance IT workshop – Organised by Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies, Sri Lanka (2008)
Activities
Presentations
- “Path-finding and Planning in a 3D Environment: An Analysis Using Bidirectional Versions of Dijkstra’s, Weighted A*, and Greedy Best First Search Algorithms”, In “IEEE 2nd Asian Conference on Innovation in Technology (ASAINCON 2022), Pune, India, 26 – 28 August 2022
- “Estimating and Locating the Volumes of Multiple Primary Non-Small Cell Stage-I Bronchogenic Carcinomas from Medical Images Using Specially Devised Morphological Operations”, Second IEEE International Conference in Information Science (ICIS’16), Kerala, India, 12-13 August 2016.
- “A Fourier Transform Approach for the Diagnosis of Leukaemia”, International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Information Technology 2016 (ECIT’16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5-6 January 2016.
- “A Level Set Based Deformable Model for Segmenting Tumors in Medical Images”, IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Informatics and Medical Engineering (PRIME-2012), Salem, India, March, 2012.
- “Visualization in 3D Medical Imaging”, Centre for Image Analysis, Uppsala University, Sweden 24 April, 2006.
Attended Conferences and workshops
- IEEE 2nd Asian Conference on Innovation in Technology (ASAINCON 2022), Pune, India, 26 – 28 August 2022
- Second IEEE International Conference in Information Science (ICIS’16), Kerala, India, 12-13 August 2016.
- International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Information Technology 2016 (ECIT’16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5-6 January 2016.
- Sri Lanka Student Workshop on Computer Science – 2013, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 14 December, 2013.
- IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Informatics and Medical Engineering (PRIME-2012), Salem, India, March, 2012.
- 2010 ICIAfS Post Conference Workshop on ICT for Sustainability, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 21 – 22 December, 2010,
- ICES-INASP AuthorAid Workshop on Research Writing Skills, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 15-19 March 2010.
- Swedish Symposium on Image Analysis, SSBA, University of Umea, Sweden, 15 – 17 March , 2006.
Session Chair / Technical Program Committee Member at International Conferences
- Chair of the Technical Session on “Computing & Information Systems”, Applied Science, Business & Industrial Research Symposium (ASBIRES) 2020, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, 22nd December 2020
- Executive committee member of AMCEHA-2019 , served as the Chief Editor
- Executive committee member of Vingnanam International Research Conference (VIRC) 2018 served as the Chief Editor
- Served as the Chief-Editor – Sri Lanka Student Workshop in Computer Science 2019 (SL-SWCS’19)
- Served as Session Chair – Sri Lanka Student Workshop in Computer Science 2017 (SL-SWCS’17)
- Served as Session Chair – Sri Lanka Student Workshop in Computer Science 2015 (SL-SWCS’15)
- Served as Publication Chair – Sri Lanka Student Workshop in Computer Science 2013 (SL-SWCS’13)
Admin Roles
Head
- Department of Computer Science, August 2020 to present.
Member
- Member to draft subject benchmark statements for subjects in Computing, Standing Committee in Computing of the UGC.
- Member of Internal Quality Assurance Cell of Faculty of Science (Nov 2020 – Nov 2023)
- Member of the Science Exhibition Committee for School Children, 2019
- Member of the Research Ethics Committee (REC) of the UoJ (Oct 2018 – Oct 2021)
- Member of Science Faculty Career Guidance Cell (SFCGC) (July 2017 – July 2019)
- Member of Science Faculty Research Committee (SFRC) (Feb 2017 – Feb 2020)
- Member of Science Faculty Career Guidance Cell (SFCGC) (2015 – 2016)
- Member of Sports Advisory Board (01 Jan 2015 – 31 Dec 2016)
- Member of the Board – Faculty of Science. (2014 – present)
- Member of IEEE
Awards
- Sabalingam Memorial Prize for the Best overall Performance in Computer Science – 2001, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Publications
2022
- Nickson, J.A.J. and Suthakar, S.: “Path-finding and Planning in a 3D Environment: An Analysis Using Bidirectional Versions of Dijkstra’s, Weighted A*, and Greedy Best First Search Algorithms”, In “IEEE 2nd Asian Conference on Innovation in Technology
(ASAINCON 2022), Pune, India, 26 – 28 August 2022. [Accepted]
2019
- Saranya B. and Suthakar S.:”Parallelizing Active Contour Model for Object Segmentation”, In Postgraduate Institute of Science Research Congress 2019, October 2019. [Abstract-Accepted]
2017
- Saahithyan, V. and Suthakar, S.: “Performance Analysis of Basic Image Processing Algorithms on GPU”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control (ICISC 2017), pp. 227-232, Coimbatore, India, 19-20 January, 2017.
2016
- Ramalingam, A. and Suthakar, S.: “Estimating and Locating the Volumes of Multiple Primary Non-Small Cell Stage-I Bronchogenic Carcinomas from Medical Images Using Specially Devised Morphological Operations”, In Second IEEE International Conference in Information Science (ICIS’16), Kerala, India, 12-13 August 2016.
- Janarththanan, J. and Suthakar, S., “Diagnosing Leukaemia Based on Geometric Characteristics of Cells in Microscopic Blood Images”, In International Journal of Computing, Communication and Instrumentation Engineering (IJCCIE), vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 64-68, 2016.
- Janarththanan, J. and Suthakar, S., “A Fourier Transform Approach for the Diagnosis of Leukaemia”, In Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Information Technology 2016 (ECIT’16), pp. 118-124, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 5-6 January 2016.
2012
- Suthakar, S., Mahesan, S.: “A New Speed Function for Level set Based Deformable Model for Tumour Segmentation in Medical Images”, International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Informatics (IJCII), Vol. 2, No. 2, 2012.
- Suthakar, S., Mahesan, S.: “A Level Set Based Deformable Model for Segmenting Tumors in Medical Images”, proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Informatics and Medical Engineering (PRIME-2012), pp. 280-285, Salem, India, 2012.
2011
- Sotheeswaran, S., Suthakar, S. and Ratnarajah, N.: “A Software Tool for Enhancing, Manipulating and Visualizing MRI”, YSF Symposium 2011, Young Scientists Forum (YSF), National Science and Technology Commission of Sri Lanka (NASTEC), 2011.
- Sotheeswaran, S., Suthakar, S. and Ratnarajah, N. : ”A Software Environment for MR Image Processing and Visualisation”, 10th Annual Research Session [ARS], 2011
2010
- Sotheeswaran, S. and Suthakar, S.: “Visualization of Brain MRI Images and Abnormal Region Identification”, proceedings of the 17th Annual Session, Jaffna Science Association, Jaffna, Section B, 2010
2006
- Suthakar, S.: “Visualization in 3D Medical Imaging (A report)”, Centre for Image Analysis, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2006
2004
- Ramanan, A. and Suthakar, S.: “Data Compression in Image processing by using 2-Dimensional Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation in Java”, proceedings of the 12th Annual Session of the Jaffna Science Association, Section B, pp. 18, 2004.
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching
- CSC221GE2: Numerical Computing
- CSC204GC2: Practical Computing – II
- CSC306GC2: Practical Computing – III (shared with Mr.K.S.)
- CSC307GC2: Graphics and Visual Computing
- CSC322GE2: Multimedia Technologies
- CSC304MC3: Digital Image Processing
- CSC405MC3: Parallel computing
Teaching to other HEIs
- Final year Computer Science Students, Faculty of Science, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2015 & 2016.
- Visiting Lecturer, The Open University of Sri Lanka/Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2011 – 2016
- Final year Computer Science Students, Faculty of Science, Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2014 & 2015.
- Final year ICT students, Vavuniya Campus of the University of Jaffna, 2014 & 2015
- Visiting Lecturer, Media Resources and Training Centre, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka, 2008 – 2009