- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Earth Resources Engineering
- Lecturer (Probationary)
Contact information
Univerity of Moratuwa
Katubadda
Moratuwa
Sri Lanka
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Senior Treasurer - Earth Resources Engineering Society - (2026 To date)
Department Representative - Exhibition Committee - (2026 To date)
International Symposium on Earth Resources Management & Environment (ISERME) - Organizing Committee co-chair - (2026 To date)
Research Activities
Underground Mining
Mine Automation and Mechanization
Smart Mining Technologies and Sensor Systems
Education and Professional Affiliations
Bachelors, University of Moratuwa ,2017 Mining and Mineral Processing Engineering
PhD, Monash University ,2026 Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering
Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka(2014 To date)
IEEE(2022 To date)
Career
April 2017 - December 2018
October 2015 - April 2016
Senior Treasurer - Earth Resources Engineering Society - 2026 - to date
Honours and Awards
Faculty Postgraduate Publication Award (Received 2026)
Publications*
Likitha Lasantha, Javad Aliasgari, Shahed I Khan, Biplob Ray, Nemai C Karmakar,".FPGA-based UWB pulse generator for IR-UWB chipless RFID reader.",2025 6th Australian Microwave Symposium (AMS),Gold Coast, Australia,2025,1-2
Shahed Khan, Likitha Lasantha, Biplob Ray, Nemai Karmakar,".Evaluating dynamic wavelet fingerprinting of chipless RFID tags in detecting counterfeits in noiseless and noisy environments.",2024 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID),Cambridge, MA, USA,2024,1-6
Likitha Lasantha, Shahed I Khan, Biplob Ray, Nemai C Karmakar,".Enhancing Quality Factor of Chipless RFID Sensors by Optimising the Substrate Properties and Resonator Geometry.",2024 IEEE International Conference on RFID (RFID),Cambridge, MA, USA,2024,125-130
Shahed Khan, Likitha Lasantha, Nemai Karmakar,".Comparative study: Evaluating chipless RFID tag authenticity with a portable mimo reader-based approach.",2024 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium-IMS 2024,Washington, DC, USA,2024,365-368
Mohamed El-Hadidy, Shahed I Khan, Likitha Lasantha, Ines Bakri, Marc Tröge, Nemai C Karmakar,".Low-Latency Chipless RFID Tag Reader: Real-World Implementation of Frequency Hopping-Sweeping Blind Detection Technique.",2024 54th European Microwave Conference (EuMC),Paris, France,2024,304-307
Mohamed El-Hadidy, Likitha Lasantha, Shahed I Khan, Yasmine El Sayed, Nemai C Karmakar,".Improved RCS chipless RFID tag array for long reading range.",2023 33rd International Conference Radioelektronika (RADIOELEKTRONIKA),Pardubice, Czech Republic,2023,1-5
Liyanage LWA Gunasekara HMSU Jayasinghe AP Lasantha MML,".Increasing the Thermal Conductivity of Rubber by Using Natural Graphite as an Additive.",INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON EARTH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT & ENVIRONMENT (ISERME 2018),Sri Lanka,2018,
Lasantha MML Somarathne KGMS Hemalal PVA Dharmaratne PGR,".CRITICAL EVALUATION OF CURRENT ENVIRONMENTAL COMFORT CONDITIONS OF BOGALA UNDERGROUND.",International Symposium on Earth Resources Management & Environment (ISERME 2017),Sri Lanka,2017,
Lasantha MML Rohitha LPS,".EVALUATION OF EXTRANEOUS IRON CONTAMINANT REMOVAL PROCESS OF QUARTZ PROCESSING PLANTS IN SRI LANKA.",Research Symposium on Mineral Resources of Sri Lanka : Prospects and Challenges,Sri Lanka,2017,
Likitha Lasantha, Biplob Ray, Nemai Karmakar,".Trade-off analysis for array configurations of chipless RFID sensor tag designs.",MDPI Sensors,Volume 25 Issue 6,2025
Likitha Lasantha, Biplob Ray, Hossein Masoumi, Nemai C Karmakar,".Cross-Polarized Chipless RFID Sensor: A Novel Approach for Measuring Dielectric Constants in Solid Minerals and Rocks.",IEEE Sensors Journal,Volume 25 Issue 12,2025
Likitha Lasantha, Shahed I Khan, Biplob Ray, Nemai C Karmakar, Hossein Masoumi, Matthew Josh,".Chipless RFID sensory array for IoT dielectric sensing and material characterization.",IEEE Internet of Things Journal,Volume 11 Issue 24,2024
Shadhon Chandra Mohonta, Likitha Lasantha, Mainak Majumder, Phillip Aitchison, Nemai C Karmakar,".Chipless RFID strain sensors: A review and performance analysis.",Sensors and Actuators A: Physical,Volume 376,2024
Likitha Lasantha, Nemai C Karmakar, Biplob Ray,".Chipless RFID sensors for IoT sensing and potential applications in underground mining�A review.",IEEE Sensors Journal,Volume 23 Issue 9,2023