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Sahan Priyanayana, a Mphil student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended and presented at the IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference which was held from November 12 - 14, 2019 in The Depok City, Indonesia. Sahan is a member of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group led by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana. He presented a paper titled “Evaluation of Navigation Commands Based on Conceptual Attributes to Enhance Human-Robot Interaction”.

Department of Electrical Engineering inaugurated the new 2019/20 intake of three postgraduate taught courses, MSc/PG Dip in Electrical Engineering, Electrical Installations and Industrial Automation on Friday, 29^th November 2019 at 2pm at the Electrical Engineering seminar room. Emeritus Professor Samarajeewa Karunaratne attended the inaugural ceremony as the key note speaker.

A delegation from Shanghai University of Electric Power visited the Department of Electrical Engineering on 5^th December 2019. The delegation included Ms. Zhang Chuan - University Vice President, Mr. Yang Xiu - Vice Director, Innovation Center of Energy and Electric Power, Mr. Bi Zhongqin - Vice Dean, Computer Science and Technology College, Ms. Xu Xinyan - Vice Director, Academic Affairs Office, Ms. Zhao Yan - Vice Dean, Electronics and Information Engineering College, Ms. Luo – Staff, International Exchange and Cooperation Office. 

Dr. Jayatunga attended the 9th IEEE ISGT conference which was held from 29th September to 3rd October 2019 at the University of POLITECHNICA, Bucharest, Romania with her joint PhD candidate Dilhani Chathurangi, to present the paper titled “Evaluation of Maximum Solar PV Penetration: Deterministic Approach for Overvoltage Curtailments”. 

Prof. Sisil Kumarawadu has been bestowed with an honorary position of Overseas Distinguished Professor in the College of Electronics and Information Engineering of the Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP).

Chapa Sirithunge, a final year PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended and presented at the 14th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS 2019) which was held from December 18-20, 2019 at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya. Chapa is a member of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group led by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana.

Tharushi Kalinga, an MSc Research Student at Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended the Second Nepal Winter School in AI held from 10^th to 20^th December 2019 at Gandaki College of Engineering and Science (GCES) in Pokhara, Nepal.

Sahan Priyanayana, a Mphil student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa attended and presented at the IEEE Region 10 Humanitarian Technology Conference which was held from November 12 - 14, 2019 in The Depok City, Indonesia. Sahan is a member of the Intelligent Service Robotics Group led by Dr. Buddhika Jayasekara and Dr. Chandima Pathirana.

A research paper titled “An Exploratory Study on Proxemics Preferences of Humans in Accordance with Attributes of Service Robots ’’ was presented at the 28^th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) held from Oct 14 - 18 in New Delhi, India by Mrs. S. M. B. P. Samarakoon, who was a research assistant at the Center of Advanced Robotics, University of Moratuwa. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student at SUTD, Singapore.

Chapa Sirithunge, a final year PhD student at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Moratuwa participated at the Knowledge Sharing Program organized by the National Science Foundation. The event was held on 24th September at the National Science Foundation Auditorium. She delivered a speech on “Artificial Intelligence for Modern Society” on behalf of the National Science Foundation. Students, staff members and general public interested in the field of AI witnessed the event.