- Faculty of Engineering
- Department of Electrical Engineering
- Senior Professor
Contact information
Department of Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Teaching and Administrative Activities
ELECTRICAL MACHINES & DRIVES I -Undergraduate -2015
Lighting Design -Postgraduate -2015
Head of Department -Administration of Departmental Activities (2015 To 2017)
Dean, Engineering -Administration of all academic activities of Faculty of Engineering. (2017 To 2020)
Research Activities
Controls
Automation
Lighting
Energy
Artificial Intelligence
Controls and Automation, Lighting&Energy Efficient Utilization of Electrici, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics
Education and Professional Affiliations
, University of Moratuwa ,1984 Electrical Engineering
Masters, University of London ,1988 Control Systems and Automation
PhD, University of British Columbia ,1996 Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic, Automation, Computer Vision
PhD, University Of Moratuwa ,
Bachelors, University of London ,
Masters, University of London ,
Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka(2011 To date)
Charted Engineer and a member of Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka.( To date)
Career
Honours and Awards
Publications*
Anil Gunawardana,".Chapter 8. Energy Saving Lamps and Electronic Ballasts .",,1998
N. K. Wickramarachchi, W. G. M. Amaradasa, H. K. J. Amarasinghe, H. K. T. R. Karunarathna, W. M. Wijekoon,".Design and construction of an automated test bench for MCB testing.",Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2016,University of Moratuwa,2016,260-265
W. A. K. Dhananjaya ; R. M. M. R. Rathnayake ; S. C. J. Samarathunga ; C. L. Senanayake ; N. Wickramarachchi,".Appliance-level demand identification through signature analysis.",Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2015,University of Moratuwa,2015,70-75
Chalitha Kanchana, Thilina Jayaweera, Sarinda Jayasinghe, Dhamsara Jayawardana and Nalin Wickramarachchi,,".Intelligent Water Management System with Remote Access and Monitoring.",1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation, AIMS2013,Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia,2013,
N. Wickramarachchi,".Trends and developments in lighting industry in Sri Lanka.",IEE Annual Conference,,2015
Waratt Rattasiri, Saman K Halgamuge, Nalin Wickramarachchi,".Structure adaptation of hierarchical knowledge-based classifiers.",Neural Computing and Applications,18/6,2010
W Rattasiri, N Wickramarachchi, S K Halgamuge,".An optimized anti‐lock braking system in the presence of multiple road surface types.",International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing,21/6,2010
Publications
Design and construction of an automated test bench for MCB testing, N. K. Wickramarachchi ; W. G. M. Amaradasa ; H. K. J. Amarasinghe ; H. K. T. R. Karunarathna ; W. M. Wijekoon, MERCON 2016, Page(s):260-265
Appliance-level demand identification through signature analysis W. A. K. Dhananjaya ; R. M. M. R. Rathnayake ; S. C. J. Samarathunga ; C. L. Senanayake ; N. Wickramarachchi, MERCON 2015, Page(s):70-75
Intelligent Water Management System with Remote Access and Monitoring, Chalitha Kanchana, Thilina Jayaweera, Sarinda Jayasinghe, Dhamsara Jayawardana and Nalin Wickramarachchi, 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Modelling and Simulation, AIMS2013, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, December 2013.
Trends and Developments in Lighting Industry in Sri Lanka, Nalin Wickramarachchi, International Conference on Transition to Efficient Lighting, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, Sri Lanka Network, Colombo, July 2013.
A Basis for a Natural Electricity Tariff β A Case Study of the Domestic sector, Rohan Lucas and Nalin Wickramarachchi, SLEMA Journal, Vol 15, Nos. 1 and 2, September 2012.
Equal Right to Sri Lankaβs Natural Energy Resources, Rohan Lucas and Nalin Wickramarachchi, National Energy Symposium, 2012, Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority, BMICH, August 2011.
LED for Sri Lanka, A presentation at National Energy Symposium, 2010, Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority, BMICH, Aug. 2010
Vision Based Cross Sectional Area Estimator for Industrial Rubber Profile Extrusion Process Controlling, Chaminda Karunasena and Nalin Wickramarachchi, 5th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), December 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Design and Implementation of High-Power- Factor Dimmable Fluorescent Lamp Ballast Circuit, K.M.U.S. Ratnayake, W.D.S. Priyankara, W.A.D. Premachandra, R.P.R.H. Rajapakshe, N.Wickramarachchi, Engineering Research Unit 16th Annual Symposium, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, November 2nd, 2010.
An image recognition system for crop disease identification of paddy fields in Sri Lanka, Anthonys, G. ; Wickramarachchi, Nalin , 2009 International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/ICIINFS.2009.5429828 , Publication Year: 2009 , Page(s): 403 - 407.
Structure Adaptation of Hierarchical Knowledge-Based Classifiers, W. Rattasiri, S. K. Halgamuge, N. Wickramarachchi, Neural Computing and Applications, Springer London, July 2008.
Sensitivity-Based Hierarchical Controller Architectures for Active Suspension, W. Rattasiri, N. Wickramarachchi, S. K. Halgamuge, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, Volume 16, Issue 1, Jan. 2008 Page(s):103 - 112.
An Optimized Anti-lock Braking System in the Presence of Multiple Road Surface Types, W. Rattasiri, N. Wickramarachchi, S. K. Halgamuge, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing Volume 21, Issue 6, Pages 477-498 AUG 2007, Wiley.
Hierarchical and Interpretable Connectionist Structure Generation from Data, W. Rattasiri, S. K. Halgamuge and N. Wickramarachchi, International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research, Vol 3, Number 1, 2007.
Biological Sequence Data Preprocessing for Classification: A Case Study in Splice Site Identification, A.K.M.A. Baten, S.K. Halgamuge, B. Chang and N. Wickramarachchi, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag Vol 4492/2007 , pp 1221-1230, June 2007
Splice Site Detection Using a Combination of Markov Model and Neural Network, A.K.M.A. Baten, S.K. Halgamuge, N. Wickramarachchi, and J.C. Rajapakse, BIOINFO2005, Busan, Korea, 2005.
Fuzzy logic based reinforcement learning of admittance control for automated robotic manufacturing, W. de Silva and N. Wickramarachchi., Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems, 1997. KES apos;97. Proceedings., 1997 First International Conference on Volume 2, Issue , 27-23 May 1997 Page(s):i - ix
An intelligent supervisory control system for a fish processing workcell de Silva, C.W.; Wickramarachchi, N., Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems, 1997. KES '97. Proceedings., 1997 First International Conference on ,Volume: 2 Date: 27-23 May 1997, Page(s): 470-477 vol.2, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/KES.1997.619425
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