Chaminda Bandara - Awards & Honors

President's Award for Scientific Research, Nov 2023
Our publication in Applied Energy (impact factor 11.2) titled "Coordinated photovoltaic re-phasing: A novel method to maximize renewable energy integration in low voltage networks by mitigating network unbalances" received president's award for the scientific research in year 2020 at BMICH, Sri Lanka. This work was done during my undergrad at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.

Finalists of ICRA 2022 Outstanding Automation Paper, May 2022
Our paper "SPIN Road Mapper: Extracting Roads from Aerial Images via Spatial and Interaction Space Graph Reasoning for Autonomous Driving" has been selected for the outstanding automation paper award at 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), held in Philadelphia (PA), USA.

Award Webpage: https://www.icra2022.org/program/awards

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2022) Travel Grant, April 2022
I have been selected to receive a contribution towards my attendance at the 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2022) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from July 17 - July 22, 2022.

First-Year Department Fellowship August 2020
Financial aid for the first year of Ph.D. study from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Eng. E. W. Karunaratna Award July-2019
This prestigious award is given to the best undergraduate project in Electrical and Electronic Engineering among all state universities in Sri Lanka by the Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL).

Manamperi Award July-2019
This prestigious award is given to the best undergraduate research project carried out at a Faculty of Engineering in a Sri Lankan university by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS).

C.A. Hewavitharana Memorial Prize July-2019
This prize is awarded to the best student in all fields of engineering in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya at the annual general convocation.

Ceylon Electricity Board Prize July-2019
This prize is awarded to the best student in the field of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the annual general convocation of University of Peradeniya.

Ceylon Electricity Board Gold Medal July-2019
This gold medal is awarded to the best student in the field of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the annual general convocation of University of Peradeniya.

E.F. Bartholomeusz Prize July-2019
This prize is awarded to the best student in all fields of engineering who has the highest average mark for the engineering mathematics modules which are offered throughout the degree at the annual general convocation.

R.H. Paul Prize July-2019
This prize is awarded to the best-performing student in the electric power and energy-related courses which are offered throughout the degree course at the annual general convocation.

W.M.G. Fernando Prize July-2019
This prize is awarded to the best-performing student in the Electronic Communications related subject courses which are offered throughout the degree course at the annual general convocation.

W.P. Jayasekara Prize July-2019
This prize is given to the best undergraduate final year project in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the annual general convocation.

Professor E.F. Bartholameusz Endowment Award August 2019
This prize is given to the best final-year undergraduate project which has an outstanding mathematical background at the annual general meeting of the Alumni Association of the University of Peradeniya

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