- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Senior Lecturer Grade II
Contact information
Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Industrial Training Coordinator - Coordinating Industrial training of undergraduate students (2023 To date)
CPD coordinator for Department of EE - Coordination of CPD courses offered by the Department of EE (2023 To 2024)
Chairman of Energy Committee - Chairman of energy committee of the University of Moratuwa (2023 To date)
Awards Coordinator -Coordination of graduate and undergraduate awards (2023 To date)
Research Activities
High Voltage Engineering
Applied Electromagnetics
Transient Simulation of Power Systems
Lightning Protection and Earthing
Education and Professional Affiliations
PhD, University of Manitoba ,2022
Masters, University of Manitoba ,2019
Bachelors, University of Moratuwa ,2016
Career
Honours and Awards
Publications*
B. R. Gunawardana, P. S. N. de Silva, K.T.M.U. Hemapala, M. Gunawardana,".Adaptive switching based control mechanism for mitigating frequency oscillations due to large load drops in low inertia systems.",2024 IEEE 34th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC),Sydney, Australia,2024,1-6
K. A. K. S. Rathnasiri, R. P. S. Dilsara, G. C. L. Siriwardhana, M. Gunawardana, R. Samarasinghe,".Online Partial Discharge Detection & Localization of a Transformer Winding Using Machine Learning.",2024 4th International Conference on Electrical Engineering (EECon),Colombo, Sri Lanka,2024,19-24
Dulja Bamunusinghe Pabasara Pieris Kopisankar Nagarajah Kopisankar Nagarajah Manuja Gunawardana,".Traveling Wave Based Fault Location and Fault Classification Technique for Distribution Networks with High Renewable Penetration.",International Conference on Emerging Frontiers in Electrical and Electronic Technologies (ICEFEET 2023),Department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Patna,2023,01-06
Raveen Sanjaya De Silva Uruththiramoorthy Vinusan Sajitha Kushan Aldeniya Rasara Samarasinghe Manuja Gunawardana,".Optimizing Marx Impulse Generator Settings for Lightning Impulse Testing of Transformers: An Automated Approach for Enhanced Efficiency and Accuracy.",2023 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon),Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,2023,189-194