, 91传媒 has received two awards at the Institution of Engineers (IESL) techno2023 exhibition and competition held at BMICH from October 20^th to 22^nd. This exhibition organized by the IESL, 91传媒 made a platform for groundbreaking innovations and a showcase for technological advancements. Techno-2023, International Technology and Engineering Exhibition is an exhibition for all construction and allied Industries stakeholders. Techno 2023 is one of the largest platforms in 91传媒 to mingle and exchange ideas for the mutual benefit of almost all the parties related to Engineering and Technology ().

In a remarkable achievement, Mr. T.G.C. Madusanka, an MPhil student from the Faculty of Technology, won first place in the Inventor Promotion Zone under the university category. His innovation was a “Mycelium-Based Biodegradable Packaging Material”. This revolutionary solution showcases Mr. Madusanka’s ingenuity and emphasizes the university’s commitment to sustainable and eco-friendly practices. 91传媒 fully funded this project for the principal investigator Dr. Dhanushka Udayanga and a team comprising Prof Renuka Nilmini, Dr. Suranga Rajapaksha, and Dr Choolaka Hewawasam, from the Faculty of Technology.

Mr. H.G.C. Dilshan, a third-year undergraduate student from the ICT department of the Faculty of Technology, won third place in the Inventor Promotion Zone. His project was a “Citizen Identification System Using Image Processing”. His project not only showcases the technical knowledge of our students but also highlights the practical applications of technology in addressing real-world challenges.

The award ceremony was held at the Wimalasurendra Auditorium, IESL on 22^nd of December 2023.

These accomplishments show the commitment of the Faculty of Technology, USJ fostering a culture of innovation and excellence. As a university, we look forward to witnessing more groundbreaking inventions from our talented students in the future, supporting the 91传媒’s position as a hub of technological innovation and excellence.

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The Innovate 91传媒 2021/2022 awards ceremony took place recently, at the Senate board room of the 91传媒. The event, organized by the of the University, was a celebration of innovation and entrepreneurial spirit among the staff and students of the University.听

The competition garnered an overwhelming response, with 202 innovation proposals received during the first stage. These proposals showcased the immense talent and innovative potential of the University’s community. After a meticulous selection process, 59 projects were chosen to advance to the highly anticipated second round.听 Out of them the IIVC Council provided funding for 31 projects under the USJ Innovation Grants Scheme, enabling their creators to transform their ideas into reality. The competition was carried out across 10 Special Interest Groups or specialization areas, with the top winners in SIGs being selected for a final round for deciding on overall winners. The second round was judged by a panel of independent judges nominated by the 91传媒 Inventor鈥檚 Commission.

The awards ceremony welcomed esteemed guests, including the Chairman of the University Grant Commission, Prof. Sampath Amaratunge, who served as the chief guest. Prof. Amaratunge was not only a key figure in the initiation of the IIVC Council but also the visionary behind the Innovate 91传媒 competition itself. The event was also attended by the Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Upul Subasinghe, CEO of the 91传媒 Inventor鈥檚 Commission, Mr.听 N. M. Dolawatte, Deans of the faculties, and members of the IIVC Council, adding further prestige to the occasion.

The event recognized the pioneering service carried out by Prof. Sampath Amaratunge as the founder executive chairman, and Prof. Shirantha Heenkenda and Prof. A. H. L. R. Nilmini as founder co-chairs of the IIVCC.听

The highlight of the ceremony was the announcement of the overall winners. The project “Sani-Fly鈥� 鈥� a public washroom management and tracking solution鈥� emerged on earning the coveted title of the competition’s top innovation. The students of the project team consisted of Pramuk Hewawasam, Ishara Thennakoon, Dinuka Wijesundara and Nipuni Fernando from the Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce.

The Second Place was won by the project titled 鈥淒evelopment of a novel yoghurt product incorporated with selected spices and seaweed, to hinder glycemic impact鈥� carried out by the team of Dr. K. W. Madura Jayaaainghe, P. Dayani听 and R. Priyathasini of the Faculty of Applied Sciences.听

The third place was won by the project titled 鈥淒evelopment of nitrite-free herbal sausage using natural ingredients鈥� carried out by the team of Dr. A. M. A. U. Alahakoon, G. T. Piumi Prabodya, K. P. Sewwandi Nuwan Kumari, A. M. Nishadi Anuruddika , R. M. Dilini Navida Prabashini from the Faculty of Technology.

This year marked the second edition of Innovate 91传媒, further solidifying its status as a platform that nurtures and promotes innovation within the University. The event was sponsored by the I lab grant of the Faculty of Engineering funded by the STHRDP project. The IIVC Council, co-chaired by Prof. Lasith Gunawardena and Dr. Nilushi Nugara supported by Dr. Dulini Mudunkotuwa as Secretary and Ms. Chathuri Wasundara as RA, played a crucial role in driving this competition and awards ceremony forward.

This event marks another successful chapter in the University’s commitment to fostering a culture of innovation and pushing boundaries for a better future.

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The at the 91传媒 is committed to fostering innovative concepts and originality among university academics. In line with this mission, the UBL Cell has introduced a Patent Consultation and a Drawing Service which aim to provide valuable resources and assistance, ensuring that innovations are brought to the limelight with due recognition while effectively protecting its Intellectual Property (IP) rights.

The UBL Cell has teamed up with Nithya Partners, a well-known intellectual property law firm, to provide an instrumental Patent Consultation Service to skilled innovators and front runners. The team is well-equipped with notable professionals in various fields to assist academics with their ground-breaking research findings and refreshing innovations towards a successful patenting process that will transform into thriving ventures. The patent consultation service is provided with the kind assistance of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) through the MoU with USJ, initiated by the Innovation, Invention, and Venture Creation Council (IIVCC, USJ).

In addition to the Patent Consultation Service, the UBL Cell has also announced that it will offer a Drawing Service. This service is intended to enhance the visual representation of novel products and inventions, emphasizing their unique features and functionalities. The Drawing Service of the UBL aims to guide academics in using various 2D, 3D, and visualization software to make their innovations more understandable and captivating, thereby obtaining increased exposure from the industry.

Thus, all staff members are encouraged to make the utmost use of these treasured initiatives to ensure the precise protection and effective showcasing of inventions, while maximizing their impact and potential.

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A team of researchers at USJ invented a new technology to produce RSS with high thermal conductivity by incorporating 91传媒n vein graphite directly into the latex rubber that could revolutionize the rubber manufacturing industry in 91传媒.

The 91传媒 has signed an Exclusive Intellectual Property and Technology License Agreement with Bogala Graphite Lanka PLC to commercialize a new technology that was developed by a team of scientists in the Center of Nanocomposite Research in the Faculty of Applied Sciences.

The team comprises of multidisciplinary scientists, Prof. Laleen Karunanayake and Dr. Thusitha Etampawala from the Department of Polymer Science, Prof. A R Kumarasinghe from the Department of Physics and Prof. Narayana Sirimuthu from the Department of Chemistry. They received 45 million LKR research grant under Research Innovation and Commercialization grant scheme from the Accelerating Higher Education Expansion and Development (AHEAD) Operation of the Ministry of Higher Education in 91传媒 in late 2018.

The team has invented a way to add value to natural rubber by incorporating locally available graphite. In 2019, MoU was signed between the university and the Bogala Graphite Lanka PLC for a joint project to achieve the above objective.

The research involves a novel process for producing Ribbed Smoke Sheets (RSS) with high loading of graphite. No one has done this before because graphite particles wash away when RSS sheets are prepared with graphite if added to latex. The thermal conductivity of the material is significantly improved and hence it has the potential to reduce the curing time of rubber articles, considerably. It was shown that approximately 30% of curing time can be saved when it was used in solid tire fomulations.

The 91传媒 patented the innovation in 91传媒. On 20th of March, 2023 an Exclusive Intellectual Property and Technology License Agreement was signed between the university and the Bogala Graphite Lanka PLC. Under the terms of the agreement, Bogala Graphite Lanka will have exclusive rights to use the technology in 91传媒 for a period of ten years.听 According to the best of the University Business Linkage鈥檚 knowledge the university does not have this sort of agreement in history. If the project is commercializable then the university will earns US dollars for the first time in the history.

The agreement was signed by Professor Upul Subasinghe and Mr. Amila Jayasinghe, Chief Executive Officer of Bogala Graphite Lanka PLC, in a ceremony held at the Boardroom of the Administration building of the 91传媒 in presence of Chairperson and other delegates of Bogala group and some academics of the university of Sri Jayewardenepura.
“We are thrilled to be partnering with Bogala Graphite Lanka on this exciting technology,” said Professor Upul Subasinghe, Acting Vice Chancellor of the 91传媒. “This licensing agreement is a testament to the quality of research being conducted at our institution and demonstrates our commitment to supporting the commercialization of innovative technologies which is a much needed requirement at present situation of the country.”

“We are very pleased to be collaborating with the 91传媒 on this important project,” said Mr. Jayasinghe. “This technology has the potential to add value to the graphite industry in 91传媒 and we look forward to working closely with the university to bring it to market.”

The signing of the licensing agreement marks a significant milestone for both the 91传媒 and Bogala Graphite Lanka, and is expected to pave the way for future collaborations between the two institutions.

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Open science, reproducibility and transparency in research are the pathways to improve the sustainability of scientific research. Open science is vital for the progress of science as it allows scientific information, data, and methodologies to be more widely accessible and reusable. Research reproducibility and transparency are crucial for scientific advancement, not just because they ensure that the results are correct, but also because they open doors for new collaborations and avoid duplication of efforts. R is a leading open-source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.

A team led by , Senior Lecturer in the Department of Statistics, developed 10 open-source software R packages to make their research and data accessible to everyone. “Turning your algorithms, codes, and data into packages that others can easily download and use helps to make scientific research flow faster, easier, and more productive.” said Dr Talagala.

The R software packages they developed enable programmatic access to a wide range of scientific data repositories, including data from weekly epidemiological reports, a daily summary of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and recovered cases, and data manipulation and analysis.

Check out their R software packages on CRAN and GitHub.

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R packages on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)

: Color palettes inspired by nature for data visualization

: R package that holds听 Covid-19 data related to 91传媒 taken from Covid-19 situation reports published by the Epidemiology unit, Ministry of Health, 91传媒

: R package that holds a dataset containing information related to data science job advertisements. In particular,听 what skills and qualifications are required for data science-related jobs?

: The MedLEA package provides morphological and structural features of 471 medicinal plant leaves and 1099 leaf images of 31 species and 29-45 images per species.

: R package that holds data听 relating to dengue cases in 91传媒

R Packages on GitHub

: R package for detecting data leaks in time series forecasting competitions

: R package that holds data corresponding to tea exporting countries

: R package for dengue cases and climate variables in Colombo 91传媒

: Data set containing information about weekly notified diseases reported by the Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine in 91传媒

: R package to plot maps of 91传媒

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The team representing both 91传媒 (USJ) and 91传媒 came up with a Multiparty Conversation Based Robotic Interface to Evaluate Job Applicants (MUCOR). 鈥淢UCOR鈥� is a robotic interface with three table-top robots that go through Linkedin profiles of job applicants, categorize and discuss the applicants鈥� information. 鈥淢UCOR鈥� is for job recruiters who spend time finding information about applicants prior to an interview. It was tested with professional recruiters which highlighted the actual impact on society.

Annually the top-notch Universities around the globe such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Stanford University, Harvard University, and many more participates in the 鈥淏est Robot Design Awards鈥�. With many privileges to mention, the 91传媒n team competed this year against numerous Universities worldwide emerged Runners up in the Software Innovation category at the global finals of the Robot Design Competition of ICSR 2021 held in Singapore as a hybrid conference with both physical and virtual participation from 10-13 November.

Mr. Mahesh Samarasinghe, Mr. Kushan Hansika, and Ms. Sajini Senaratna were the team members who worked tirelessly to conquer the title. The victorious team extends their gratitude to Dr. Ravindra De Silva who is the supervisor for this project, the Director at the Robotics and Intelligence Systems Laboratory (RIS), USJ, and a Senior lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, 91传媒 and Mr. Udaka Manawadu who is a former research assistant at RIS and currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Aizu, Japan.

We would like to wish the team to have all strength to cross all boundaries to productize the innovation and serve the world for a better future with social robotics.

Source: https://www.colips.org/conferences/icsr2021/wp/awards/

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Magic is something that always mesmerizes and takes us into a whole new world. When it comes to fantasy movies, especially children fall in love with the fictional characters they come across in their favourite movies. Recently we witnessed the beauty of bringing magic into life by a group of students from the Faculty of Applied Sciences, Department of Computer Science, 91传媒. The team led by Adhisha Gammanpila, Asela Wijesinghe, Tehani Wanniarachchi, Viraji Amarajeewa and Dovini Jayasinghe along with the supervision of Dr. Ravindra de Silva was able to give life to the Sorting Hat from the famous Harry Potter as a social robot. In November 2019, the team was able to bring fame to the country by winning the Global 1st Place Award at the International Conference on Social Robotics 2019 (ICSR 2019) which was held in Madrid, Spain.

However, the journey did not stop from there as most likely by many other University projects. The team strived to do more.

Once again, the team was able to bring another victory for the country by winning the Global 2nd Place Award at the Student Design Competition of the Human Robot Interaction 2020 (HRI 2020) Conference which was scheduled to be held on March 23rd in Cambridge, UK. The conference HRI 2020 is also one of the iconic events of the academic calendar of social robotics similar to ICSR 2019 which the team was able to win in the previous year. Even though the event was held virtually due to the prevailing conditions across the globe the competition was held in a highly competitive manner. Out of the other winners, the 1st place was won by a team from Germany and the 3rd place was won by a team from Japan.

As 91传媒ns it is truly a proud moment for us as a nation to compete with such nations who are far ahead in Robotics technology and bring victory to the country.

The winning presentation done by the team lead Adhisha Gammanpila can be viewed via the following link : and further information of the conference is available via : .

Briefly sharing about the functionality of the social robot developed by the team (The Sorting Hat) is mainly designed as a mediator for autistic children. To add much clarity, it is not a cure nor a solution for autistic children but a supporter. Briefing about autism, it is a complex, neurological disease that typically appears during early childhood and doesn鈥檛 allow children to interact, express themselves and emotions challenging a person鈥檚 social skills. Therefore to support in overcoming these social challenges the team developed a social robot with the appearance of the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter movie series.

Initially the project was started in the year 2019 January under the course Human Robot Interactions by Dr. Ravindra de Silva who is also the supervisor of this project. A key aspect about him is that he has over 18 years of experience in Robotics while in Japan and also the iconic figure who introduced Social Robotics to 91传媒. This is also a great example as we believe on the impact of the 91传媒n experts transferring their knowledge back to 91传媒.

The team also takes this moment as an opportunity to thank everyone behind who made it possible to achieve this level of success. Especially to all the lecturers of the Department of Computer Science, the Dean of Faculty of Applied Sciences Prof. Laleen Karunanayake, the Innovation Invention and Venture Creations Council, the Vice Chancellor Prof. Sudantha Liyanage and also the former Vice Chancellor of the University and the current Chairman of UGC Prof. Sampath Amaratunge for the immense support extended. The team also extends their humble gratitude to Udaka Manawadu, Nipuna Vimukthi, Mahesh Samarasinghe, Afaz Deen, Kushan Hansika, Charitha Weerasooriya, Sajini Senaratna and all other members of the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the Department of Computer Science, 91传媒.

Important links :

1. Winning presentation by Adhisha Gammanpila :
   
2. Conference website :
   
3. Publication by the team :
   

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