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Recent and Ongoing Research Areas/Themes
- Alternative fuels and fuel additives
- Analogue and mixed signal circuit design
- Automation of machine tools
- Biomedical electronics
- Biophysical modeling of brain dynamics
- Broadband antenna design
- Coastal sediment transport
- Coherent optical communications
- Combustion control
- Complex Reactive Systems: formal specification and verification; fault diagnosis
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- Contact conditions of material sliding over drawbeads
- Control of discrete event dynamic systems
- Controller designs for periodic disturbances
- Cryptography and network security
- Disaster risk assessment and mitigation
- Design and manufacture of customized prostheses for orthopaedic applications
- Design of power electronic drive systems for electrical drives
- Distributed control systems
- Dynamic downscaling weather forecasting for flood inundation
- Dynamic memory allocation
- Efficacy of coastal vegetation against tsunami
- Electronic systems design
- Embedded systems and microprocessors; security and reliability of embedded systems
- Energy planning and auditing
- Enterprise modelling and integration for agile systems
- Failure analysis and investigation of structures
- Ground- and surface water pollution by pesticides in highly cultivated areas
- Ground water quality; water quality management in Kandy lake
- High-speed electronic circuit design
- Hydraulics in hybrid automotive technology
- Image processing techniques
- Intellectual property; digital rights management
- Intelligent control
- Intelligent instrumentation and systems
- Lightning protection
- Logic/supervisory control
- Materials and structural systems at different levels, involving cross-disciplinary research
- Matrix chain multiplication
- Microwave and RF Technology
- Nano-scale thermal transport
- Natural synthesis of signals
- Ocean wave energy
- Operations and distribution optimization; Process improvement; Sustainable manufacturing
- Optimal machining conditions with respect to cost of quality and tool life
- Performance of steel bridge piers under earthquake loading
- Pollution of soil and ground water from uncontrolled solid waste landfills
- Power quality studies
- Power transformer modeling and performance
- Quality constraints in CNC machining
- Retrofitting of structures against natural hazards
- Risk assessment of hazards in the coastal zone
- Robotics and mechatronics
- Secure communications using cryptography
- Signals research; signal recovery; signal estimation
- Signature identification and clustering
- Solid-waste management
- Smart grids
- Speed sensorless control of electrical drives
- Statistical signal processing
- Structural health monitoring of bridges
- Sustainable biodiesel processing
- Switched systems
- Systems Engineering
- Tropical wetlands: plant dynamics and plant management
- Tsunami and storm surge hydrodynamics
- Ultra-wide band passive filters and couplers
- Use of sound signals to track people
- Water and wastewater treatment
- Wave-structure interaction
Further Details of Recent and Ongoing Research
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