Staff-Prizes

President's Awards

Dr. T. Kokul and Prof. A. Ramanan are chosen as recipients of the President’s Award for Scientific Research for the publication year 2019 for their joint publication: Kokul, T., Fookes, C., Sridharan, S., Ramanan, A., Pinidiyaarachchi, U.A.J.: “Target-Specific Siamese Attention Network for Real-time Object Tracking”, In IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, pp.1276 – 1289, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2019.2935871, 2019.

Dr. M. Siyamalan received the President’s Award for Scientific Research 2018 for his publication: Manivannan, S., Zhang, W. Li, J., Trucco, E. and McKenna, S. “Structure Prediction for Gland Segmentation with Hand-Crafted and Deep Convolutional Features”, In IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, volume 37, 2018.
Dr. M. Siyamalan received the President’s Award for Scientific Research 2017 for his publication: Manivannan, S., Cobb, C., Burgess, S. and Trucco, E. “Sub-Category Classifiers for Multiple-Instance Learning and its Application to Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Visibility Classification”, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 36(5):1140–1150, 2017.

Dr. E.Y.A. Charles received the President’s Award for Scientific Research 2008 for his publication: Pham, D.T. , Packianather, M.S., and Charles, E.Y.A. “Control chart pattern clustering using a new self-organizing spiking neural network”, Journal of Engineering Manufacture, Volume 222, Number 10, pp. 1201-1211, 2008.

Dr. T. Kokul was awarded the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) Researcher of the Year Award for 2023 by Engineer Eranga Weeraratne, the Deputy Minister of Digital Economy, in the National ICT Awards ceremony held on November 24, 2024, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo.
Professor A. Ramanan was awarded the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) Researcher of the Year Award for 2022 by His Excellency Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the President of Sri Lanka, in the National ICT Awards ceremony held on October 11, 2023, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo.
Professor M. Siyamalan was awarded the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (CSSL) Researcher of the Year Award for 2021 by His Excellency Mr. Michael Appleton, the New Zealand High Commissioner of Sri Lanka and Maldives, in the 40th National IT Conference held on October 12, 2022, at the Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo.

Professor A. Ramanan was awarded the National Educator Award (Silver) 2024 at the Monarch Imperial, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, on 04 December 2024. His Excellency Mr. David Pine, the New Zealand High Commissioner to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, and Senior Prof. N.A.K.P.J. Seneviratne, the Chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), graced the occasion as the Chief Guest and the Guest of Honour, respectively.

Professor M. Siyamalan received the SUSRED Awards 2022/2023 for supervising the Ph.D. Thesis titled ‘Deep learning based fine-grained diabetic retinopathy image grading’, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka on 04 April 2024.
Professor A. Ramanan received the SUSRED (Support Scheme for Supervision of Research Degrees) Awards 2022/2023 for supervising the Ph.D. Thesis titled ‘A semi-supervised deep learning approach based on attentive visual features for fashion clothing classification’, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka on 04 April 2024.
Professor A. Ramanan received the SUSRED Awards 2022/2023 for co-supervising the Ph.D. Thesis titled ‘Deep learning based fine-grained diabetic retinopathy image grading’, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Ministry of Education, Sri Lanka on 04 April 2024.

Anparasy, S., Priyadarshani, A.H.R., Kokul, T., and Ramanan, A. “Underwater Image Enhancement Using Dual Convolutional Neural Network with Skip Connections”, in International Conference on Advanced Research in Computing (ICARC’22), 24 February 2022.
Nirthika, R., Manivannan, S., and Ramanan, A. “Loss functions for optimizing Kappa as the evaluation measure for classifying diabetic retinopathy and prostate cancer images”, in IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), IIT Ropar, India, 26-28 November 2020.
Manivannan, S. and Kausik, M. “Convolutional Neural Network and Feature Encoding for Predicting the Outcome of Cricket Matches”, In IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 18-20 December 2019.
Ramanan, M., Ramanan, A. and Charles, E.Y.A. “A Hybrid Decision Tree for Printed Tamil Character Recognition using SVMs”, In IEEE International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), BMICH, Sri Lanka, 24-25 August 2015.
Thabotharan, K. and Nalin, R. “Self Similarity and Predictability of Contact Opportunities in Opportunistic Networks”, 18th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), 12-14 December, Singapore, 2012.

Mr. K. Sarveswaran for presenting the paper entitled “Hierarchical Tag-set for Rule-based Processing of Tamil Language”, in the Modern Technology and Application track at the International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches (iCMA), 2014.
Dr. A. Ramanan for presenting the poster entitled “Unbalanced Decision Trees for Multi-class Classification” in the “2007 Symposium on Data Modelling for new researchers held at the University of Sheffield, UK., March 2007.

Dr. A. Ramanan received the Outstanding Branch Counsellor Award for being the “Branch Counsellor of the IEEE Student Branch of the University of Jaffna” awarded at the IEEE Sri Lanka Section Awards – 2021 ceremony held on 27 January 2022.
The final year research project, “A self-training convolutional neural network for the classification of surface defects in computer integrated manufacturing”, conducted by Ms. Mayuravaani Mathuranathanan, a Level-4S student of the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Dr. M. Siyamalan has been awarded as a “Best innovative project – University category” at the Provincial Level of the “Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM) National Ingenuity Awards 2021”.