Region 10 Section Report

PART A - SECTION SUMMARY

A.1 Executive Summary

Section Executive Committee Member List

• Chairman: Prof. Ruwan Gopura • Chair (elect): Dr. Maheshi Dissanayake • Immediate Past Chair: Prof. Chandimal Jayawardena • Secretary: Dr. Windhya Rankothge • Treasurer: Dr. Tharaka Samarasinghe • Assistant Secretary: Dr. Tharindu Weerakoon • Assistant Treasurer: Ms. Nuwini Dulanga • Editor: Prof. Pradeep Abeygunawardana • Committee Member: Mr. Dhammika Marasinghe • Committee Member: Prof. Shanmuganathan Vasanthapriyan • Committee Member: Mr. Mr. Peshan Sampath • Committee Member: Dr. Sudheera Navaratne • Committee Member: Dr. Sanath Jayawardana • Committee Member (WIE representation): Dr. Maheshi Dissanayake • Committee Member (YP representation): Mr. Chandana Maduranga • Committee Member (SSR): Mr. Chamika Sudasinghe

Section Highlights In 2020 the IEEE Sri Lanka Section held eight executive committee meetings and the annual general meeting was held on 24th January 2020.

Major Events (International, National) • Section Chair attended the R10 meeting (virtual) for year 2020. • Webinar on “Deep Learning Based Video Analytics” was held on 30th May 2020, by Prof. Supavadee Aramvith (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand). • Webinar on Post-Covid Engineering was held on 16th July 2020. It was a collaborative event organized by the IEEE Sri Lanka Section, IMEchE Sri Lanka group and . • A lecture under distinguished lecture programme was conducted on “Wireless Grid Integration of EVs for V2G Applications” by the Prof. Udaya Madawala (University of Auckland) on 1st August 2020. • IEEE SYW Congress 2020 of Sri Lanka Section which is the largest gathering in IEEE Sri Lanka Section was held on 9th and 10th December. • This year’s Techno Meetup series consisted of a well-rounded selection of cutting-edge topics for the students from IoT to 5G. Total of 5 Meetups were conducted as online events. • IEEE Sri Lanka Section Student Branch Officer Training was held on 9th March. • IEEE Sri Lanka Electronic Design Competition 2020 was held online. • IEEE BOOST 2020 which was held on 10th October, and provided the opportunity for the student members of IEEE Sri Lanka Section to interact with the leadership of IEEE Sri Lanka Section and senior volunteers of IEEE • IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka 2020 consisted of series of activities/webinars targeting entrepreneurship/ start-ups from June to December 2020. • IEEE Sri Lanka Section Awards Night 2020 was organized to recognize the efforts and hard work of outstanding volunteers. • SL Inspire 2020: “Career Compass” seminar focused on educating students on tertiary educational opportunities available in Sri Lanka. Under “Career Compass Higher Education and Career Guidance” webinar series, 4 webinars were conducted to educate the after O/Ls students and school leavers about the opportunities available for them in terms of their career and higher education. • Published two newsletters

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Major Chapter Activities • Power and Energy Society (PES) • Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) • Computer Society (CS) • Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTTS) • Communications Society (ComSoc) • Power Electronics Society (PELS) • Industry Applications Society (IAS) • Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) • Industrial Electronics Society (IES)

All the above-mentioned chapters have organized technical activities. Please refer the annexure for more details

Major Student and Affinity Group Activities

IEEE Young Professionals Sri Lanka

• “LETs Talk” series aims of enhancing the knowledge of young professionals by delivering technical and non-technical talks with prominent personals in the society. This year talk series was conducted as a webinar series. • “AI-Driven Sri Lanka” aims to impart AI knowledge and to develop related practical skills of young Sri Lankan individuals with an analytical background and an interest in AI. • IEEE StudPro 4.0, Career Fair 2020 organized by IEEE Young Professionals Sri Lanka for the fourth consecutive time was held on the 25th of November

IEEE WIE Sri Lanka Section

• Celebrating International Women’s’ Day, "Ladies Who Lead", an interactive workshop, was conducted on 7th March. • A webinar on “How to be a Good Researcher” was conducted on 30th April, as an online event, • “CodeWithWIE 2020” was launched with the intention of helping the local community and the health care system by providing a solution for any problem that has arisen due to COVID 19 pandemic [Event Fund: 1740 USD funds from IEEE HAC SIGHT] • A webinar on ““Business Modelling Canvas”” was conducted on 25th June, as an online event, targeting guiding the finalists of Code with WIE program to fine tune business model. • A webinar on “Blockchain for 5G IoT” was conducted on 24th July, as an online event, targeting students who are interested on 5G and IoT technologies. • WIE Sri Lanka Section, with the aim to foster technological innovation and excellence in Women in Engineering all around the country, organized the “Women in Engineering Symposium 2020 – Technological Advancements for Humanity”, on 15th and 21st November

Student branches

All 19 student branches organized activities. Please refer the annexure for more details

• IEEE Officer Training was conducted on 9th of March, with the participation of 90 student members. • IEEE BOOST 2020 was conducted on 10th and 11th October, with the participation of 300 student members, as an online event. It was an awareness program which was held based on professional and membership developments along with enthusiastic competitions. • IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka project targets to provide training, mentoring, financial support and most importantly expose the global market to budding young Sri Lankan entrepreneurs to take their idea to the next level. • IEEE Techno Meetup Sri Lanka is a platform for all the tech enthusiasts to get together, share their knowledge and become enlightened about the latest technologies. • SLInspire is a project of IEEE Sri Lanka Section and SL2College to help students with higher education goals and undergraduates with chances in research collaboration.

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Awards • Certificate of Recognition for outstanding achievement in member recruitment • Chamika Sudusinghe, the Sectional Student Representative, became the first Sri Lankan undergraduate to win the Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship. • IEEE Volunteer Leadership Training (VOLD) Program – Two graduated in 2020 (Mr. Dhammika Marasinghe and Mr. Dev Sugandhika)

• Darrel Chong Student Activities Award - IEEE Students

Silver Category

- "Brainstorm 2019" - University of Moratuwa-Sri Lanka [STB10741] - "Gammeddata IEEE Api (IEEE for the Countryside)" - University of Moratuwa-Sri Lanka [STB10741]

Bronze Category

- "Hackaholics 3.0" - University of School of Computing [STB04641] - "GameRush" - School of Computing [STB04641] - "Let Me Hack Eco 2.0" - Sabaragamuwa [STB15150]

• IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award - IEEE Students Bronze Category: University of Colombo School of Computing

A.2 Financial Report – (Please follow the format given below)

• Summary (as per submitted on NetSuite)

Acc:1100022595 Acc:8770020705 Bank opening balance as at 01-Jan-2020 (LKR) 2,336,831.97 3,304,576.54 Income 5,059,183.76 71,782.61 Expenses (3,247,026.70) Bank closing balance as at 31-Dec-2020 (LKR) 4,148,989.03 3,376,359.15

Bank statement balance as at 31-Dec-2020 (LKR) 4,148,989.03 3,376,359.15

Acc:3100050690 Acc:3100050691 Acc:3100050692 Bank opening balance as at 01-Jan-2020 (LKR) 149,898.29 149,898.29 149,898.29 Income Expenses Bank closing balance as at 31-Dec-2020 (LKR) 149,898.29 149,898.29 149,898.29

Bank statement balance as at 31-Dec-2020 (LKR) 149,898.29 149,898.29 149,898.29

• Any other financial activities: N/A

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PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

B.1 Membership Development Activities

Total number of active members in the past 3 years. Total: 2636 • Associate Member: 17 • Fellow: 1 • Graduate Student Member: 114 • Life Fellow and Members: 3 • Member: 627 • Senior Member: 64 (9 new senior members in 2020) • Student Member: 1808 • Affiliate: 2

✓ 3416 in 2019.

• Summary and evidence of work done to improve the value of membership, which leads to retention and growth of members

Awareness programs and membership development programs (Ex: IEEE BOOST 2020) were organized targeting the university and professional communities to spread the word about IEEE, how it stands out from many other technical societies and advantages of becoming IEEE members.

B.2 Chapter Activities

• Total number of Chapters in the Section: 9 • Number of Chapters formed in the current year: 2 • Number of active Chapters (Chapters who have reported required number of meetings during the year): 9 • Summary of Chapter activities (Chapter wise with annexure table/information): Please refer the annexure for more details

B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities

Please refer the annexure for more details

• Webinar on “Deep Learning Based Video Analytics” was held on 30th May 2020, with around 50 participants. It was conducted by Prof. Supavadee Aramvith (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand). • [https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2686692421442254&set=g.400734050054570] • Webinar on Post-Covid Engineering Education in Sri Lanka was held on 16th July 2020, with around 120 participants. It was a collaborative event organized by the IEEE Sri Lanka Section, IMEchE Sri Lanka and University of Moratuwa. The purpose of the webinar was to discuss the contextual challenges and explore the opportunities in Sri Lankan engineering higher education. An expert panel with a multitude of experience in engineering higher education and plenty of industrial exposure served as the resource persons. • [https://www.facebook.com/IEEESriLanka/photos/2810817375696424/] • DLP by Prof. Udaya Madawala (University of Auckland) was held on 1st August 2020, with around 100 participants as an online event. The talk focused on exploring the trends in the grid integration of EVs. • [https://www.facebook.com/IeeeTechnoMeetup/photos/a.528601847565446/936013123490981/] • IEEE Electronic Design Competition 2020, which is an annual event of IEEE SL Section that targets to improve knowledge and design skills of Sri Lankan undergraduate students was conducted as an online event. The 1st round was conducted on 25th August as an online competition. 38 teams participated in the competition, where they were required to design and develop a given task using a simulation environment. • [https://ieee.lk/events/competitions/ieee-electronic-design-competition-2020/] • [https://www.facebook.com/IEEESriLanka/photos/a.377680899010096/2696463153798514/] • IEEE Sri Lanka Section Year 2020, 1st half newsletter was published in July 2020.

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• [https://ieee.lk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IEEE-Newsletter-2020-July.pdf] • IEEE PELS Sri Lanka chapter was approved: [https://www.facebook.com/IEEEPELSSLChapter] • IEEE IAS Sri Lanka chapter was approved: [https://www.facebook.com/IEEEIASSriLanka/] • TCS for following conferences: MERCon 2020, ICIIS 2020, ICAC 2020, ICTER 2020, ICIFAS 2020, ICITR 2020, FITI 2020

B.4 Students Activities

• Total number of Student Branches in the Section: 19 • Number of Student Branches formed in the current year: 1 • Section level student activities (student congress, paper and other contests, awards etc) ✓ IEEE Officer Training was conducted on 9th of March, with the participation of 90 student members. ✓ IEEE BOOST 2020 was conducted on 10th and 11th October, with the participation of 300 student members, as an online event. It was an awareness program which was held based on professional and membership developments along with enthusiastic competitions. ✓ IEEE SYW Congress'20 of Sri Lanka Section (the largest gathering in IEEE Sri Lanka Section to guide new and experienced volunteers) was held on 9th and 10th December.

• Number of active Student Branches (Student Branches who have reported required number of meetings during the year): 19 • Summary of Student Branch activities (Student Branch wise with annexure table/information) Please refer the annexure for more details

B.5 Affinity Group Activities

Young Professional (YP) Please refer the annexure for more details

• “LETs Talk” series aims of enhancing the knowledge of young professionals by delivering technical and non-technical talks with prominent personals in the society. This year talk series was conducted as a webinar series. [https://ieeeyp.lk/lets-talk/] o 1st talk (“Boots your family financial immunity during a crisis” by Mr. Manosh Kulasena) was conducted on 08th April with 40 participants. o 2nd talk (“Cyber Security Awareness Session” by Mr. Sujit Christy, Mr. Mohan Chathuranga and Mr. Kanishka Yapa) was conducted on 19th May with 100 participants. o 3rd talk (“Innovation in a Time of Crisis” by Mr. Alagan Mahalingam) was conducted on 16th June with 70 participants. o 4th talk (“Demystifying Pricing” by Mr. Aloka Gunasekara) was conducted on 23rd June with 50 participants. o 5th talk (“B.Sc. to Ph.D. Combining Machine Learning with Physics” by Mr. Tharindu Jayasinghe) was conducted on 14th July with 70 participants. • “AI-Driven Sri Lanka” aims to impart AI knowledge and to develop related practical skills of young Sri Lankan individuals with an analytical background and an interest in AI. The panel discussion was conducted on 20th of October, as an online discussion with 230 participants. The panel consisted of Dr. Ajith Maduraperuma, Mr. Keshan Sodimana, Mr. CD Athuraliya, Mr. Romesh Ranawana and Mr. Upendra Pieris. [https://www.facebook.com/ypsrilanka/videos/2744048979194651]

Women In Engineering (WIE) Please refer the annexure for more details

• Celebrating International Women’s’ Day, "Ladies Who Lead", an interactive workshop, was conducted on 7th March, with the hope of encouraging the ladies in STEM fields to kickstart their career life with a strong foundation. The speaker was Ms. Hanna Siegertsz (Founder and CEO of Pair), and there were 100 participants. • A webinar on “How to be a Good Researcher” was conducted on 30th April, as an online event, targeting undergraduates as well as postgraduates who are starting their research works. The speaker was Prof. Janaka Ekanayake () and there were 200 participants.

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• [https://www.facebook.com/ieeepesdaysrilanka/photos/a.111008030580654/116926259988831/] • “CodeWithWIE 2020” was launched with the intention of helping the local community and the health care system by providing a solution for any problem that has arisen due to COVID 19 pandemic. Initially teams were asked to submit the proposal for the proposed solution, and there were 12 proposals. The competition was held online via zoom on 5th July. [https://www.facebook.com/IEEEWIESriLanka/photos/a.2006047079666432/2642764202661380/] [Event Fund: 1740 USD funds from IEEE HAC SIGHT] • A webinar on ““Business Modelling Canvas”” was conducted on 25th June, as an online event, targeting guiding the finalists of Code with WIE program to fine tune business model. The speaker was Roshni Fernando (DGM at hSenid Mobile Solutions) and there were 60 participants. • A webinar on “Blockchain for 5G IoT” was conducted on 24th July, as an online event, targeting students who are interested on 5G and IoT technologies. The speaker was Dr. Madhusanka Liyanage (University College Dublin) and there were 20 participants. • [https://www.facebook.com/IEEEWIESriLanka/photos/a.1650773315193812/2673745982896535/] • WIE Sri Lanka Section, with the aim to foster technological innovation and excellence in Women in Engineering all around the country, are organizing the “Women in Engineering Symposium 2020 – Technological Advancements for Humanity”, on 15th and 21st November 2020 as a two day event in Sri Lanka. Call for Submissions were opened on 1st July and were closed at the extended deadline on 31st August 2020. • [https://ieeewie.lk/symposium/call-for-papers/]

B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities

• Award constituted by the Section Certificate of Recognition for outstanding achievement in member recruitment

• Please list all Awards and Recognitions received by the Section, and members in the Section, from R 10 and IEEE HQ during the year

✓ Chamika Sudusinghe, the Sectional Student Representative, became the first Sri Lankan undergraduate to win the Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship. ✓ IEEE Volunteer Leadership Training (VOLD) Program – Two graduated in 2020 (Mr. Dhammika Marasinghe and Mr. Dev Sugandhika)

✓ Darrel Chong Student Activities Award - IEEE Students

o Silver Category

"Brainstorm 2019" - University of Moratuwa-Sri Lanka [STB10741] "Gammeddata IEEE Api (IEEE for the Countryside)" - University of Moratuwa-Sri Lanka [STB10741]

o Bronze Category

"Hackaholics 3.0" - University of Colombo School of Computing [STB04641] "GameRush" - University of Colombo School of Computing [STB04641] "Let Me Hack Eco 2.0" - Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka [STB15150]

✓ IEEE Regional Exemplary Student Branch Award - IEEE Students o Bronze Category: University of Colombo School of Computing

B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail etc.)

• Newsletter (name and number of issues in the year) IEEE Sri Lanka Section e-Newsletter, 2 issues • Home Page of the Section (give the URL and how often it is updated) https://ieee.lk/ • Other means of contacts with Section members including social media IEEE e-notices, e-mails and website.

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B.8 Industry Relations

• Membership growth and retention Sri Lanka Section is categorized as a Large Section (>2000 members) Current Membership is 2636

Awareness programs and membership development programs (Ex: IEEE BOOST 2020) were organized targeting the university and professional communities to spread the word about IEEE, how it stands out from many other technical societies and advantages of becoming IEEE members.

• Activities for/with industrial members ➢ This year’s Techno Meetup series consisted of a well-rounded selection of cutting-edge topics for the students from IoT to 5G. Total of 5 Meetups were conducted as online events and all were delivered by the industry members. ➢ IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka project targeted to provide training, mentoring, financial support and most importantly expose the global market to budding young Sri Lankan entrepreneurs to take their idea to the next level.

B.9 Humanitarian Technology Activities

• Humanitarian Technology related activities supported by the Section including collaboration with other OUs. “CodeWithWIE 2020” was launched with the intention of helping the local community and the health care system by providing a solution for any problem that has arisen due to COVID 19 pandemic. Initially teams were asked to submit the proposal for the proposed solution, and there were 12 proposals. The competition was held online via zoom on 5th July. [Event Fund: 1740 USD funds from IEEE HAC SIGHT]

• SIGHT Activities: N/A

B.10 Community Activities

• IEEE Social activities (Family day, IEEE day, Engineers Week)” No physical events were conducted due to Covid-19 situation.

PART C - OTHERS

C.1 Special Events

• Please briefly describe the importance of special events and the outcomes achieved.

IEEE SL Section granted Technical co-sponsorship to 7 international conferences. One application was rejected. ✓ ICTer 2020 International Conference on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions ✓ MERCon 2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference ✓ ICIIS 2020 Conference on Industrial and Information Systems ✓ International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS) ✓ FITI 2020 From Innovation to Impact ✓ ICAC 2020 International Conference on Advancements in Computing ✓ ICITR 2020 International Conference on Information Technology Research

Giving concession registration rates for IEEE members was considered in the assessment process and executive committee members played a major role in Technical Program Committees of these conferences.

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C.2 Relationship with National and International Societies and Non-Government Organizations (NGO)

• Webinar on Post-Covid Engineering Education in Sri Lanka was held on 16th July 2020. It was a collaborative event organized by the IEEE Sri Lanka Section and IMEchE Sri Lanka. • Chairman - Engineering Council, Eng. Tilak De Silva graced the AGM 2020 by addressing the members. He introduced the Engineering Council, its mission and vision and invited to IEEE Sri Lanka section to collaborate for future activities.

C3. Collaboration with other IEEE Sections

• IEEE Sri Lanka section coordinated the "Networking Tour with IEEE Leaders" event for IEEE WIE ILS 2020 which was organized by IEEE WIE Madras Section

C.4 Support extended to Sub-sections & Society Chapters within the Section

• IEEE Sri Lanka section collaborated with IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) Sri Lanka chapter to conduct the IEEE Sri Lanka Robotics Seminar/Workshop series.

C.5 Best Practices of your Section (which you would like to share with other Sections for the benefits of members)

• Awareness programs and membership development programs (Ex: IEEE BOOST 2020) were organized targeting the university and professional communities to spread the word about IEEE, how it stands out from many other technical societies and advantages of becoming IEEE members. • Collaborations were initiated with other National and International Societies and NGOs such as IMEchE Sri Lanka, IET Sri Lanka and Engineering Council Sri Lanka.

C.6 Problems anticipated and suggestions for solutions, if any

Due to the covid-19 pandemic, most of the physical events were cancelled. However, IEEE Sri Lanka section changed the organization plans/ strategies and conducted most of the events successfully as online event.

PART D - GOALS AND PLANS

D.1 Continuation of project/activity in progress and their implementation plans

IEEE Sri Lanka section will continue following activities/ projects. • Annual get together. • Annual sports day • Electronic design competition • IEEE awards night

D.2 Goals and Future Plans

Following events will be conducted in year 2021 • 3 minutes thesis/ research presentation competition • Collaborative event with other professional bodies i.e ECSL, IESL, IET • Joint event with chapters with industrial collaboration • Regional level event which will create more visibility for the section • Online family activity • Individual member recognition program

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D.3 Any innovative ideas to make IEEE more creative and value added for sustaining the membership retention and recruitment goals.

D.4 Business Plan for Sustainable Growth and Financial Stability.

Annexure

Title Date Host

Machine Learning for Socially Assistive Intelligent Robots Operating in Human Environments. 3/6/2020 9:30 CH10334

DML talk by Dr Jon Martens-"What is my measurement equipment actually doing?" 11/18/2020 19:00 CH10532 DML talk by Professor Jeremy Everard-Low phase noise signal generation utilizing oscillators, 9/23/2020 14:00 CH10532 resonators & filters and atomic clocks

IEEE MTT (SL chapter) ExCom meeting 2/25/2020 9:30 CH10532 Technical Co sponsorship - Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability 8/11/2021 0:00 CH10558 (ICIAfS) 2020

Excom meeting 12/7/2020 11:00 CH10558

ExCom Meeting 10/14/2020 14:00 CH10558

IEEE PES Sri Lanka Remote Lab Experiment Design Competition 9/19/2020 8:00 CH10558

Co Host 2020 IEEE PES global student congress 8/2/2020 10:00 CH10558

Technical co sponsorship - MERCon 2020 Conference 7/28/2020 0:00 CH10558

Excom meeting 6/10/2020 11:00 CH10558 Webinar on " Early Production Results from Sri Lanka's First Floating PV Plant" IEEE PES Sri 5/8/2020 18:00 CH10558 Lanka Chapter

IEEE PES Sri Lanka Chapter: Webinar on "How to be a Good Researcher" 4/30/2020 18:00 CH10558 IEEE PES Sri Lanka Chapter: Webinar on "Status of Implementation of Energy Efficiency 4/24/2020 18:00 CH10558 Initiatives"

IEEE PES Sri Lanka Chapter: Webinar on "Renewable Energy for Developing Countries" 4/19/2020 18:00 CH10558

Excom meeting 4/7/2020 11:00 CH10558

IEEE PES Sri Lanka Chapter AGM 2020 2/9/2020 11:45 CH10558

EIGHTH IEEE SRI LANKA ROBOTICS MEETUP 7/29/2020 18:00 CH10613

MERCon 2020 (Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference) 7/28/2020 8:00 CH10613

First ExCom Meeting 2020 of IEEE RAS Sri Lanka Section Chapter 3/25/2020 9:00 CH10613

ICIPRob2020 (International Conference on Image Processing and Robotics) 3/6/2020 8:00 CH10613

SEVENTH IEEE SRI LANKA ROBOTICS MEETUP 3/6/2020 5:30 CH10613

Annual General Meeting 2020-IEEE RAS Sri Lanka Section Chapter 2/20/2020 17:00 CH10613

IAS Orientation Phase 2 - University of Moratuwa 3/10/2020 16:00 CH10794

IAS Orientation Phase 1 - University of Peradeniya 2/12/2020 16:00 CH10794

Annual General Meeting 2020 12/23/2020 18:00 CH10870

Machine Learning for Wireless communication systems 9/23/2020 18:00 CH10870

Guest Talk-Low Resolution Quantization in PMS 2/6/2020 10:30 CH10870

IEEE PELS SL Section 1st EXCOM Meeting 11/20/2020 15:00 CH10947

PLES inaugural Annual General Meeting 10/9/2020 15:00 CH10947

SAC & SB Chairs Meeting 2/26/2021 21:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 8 1/11/2021 16:00 R00002

IEEE Sri Lanka Section Awards Night 2020 12/17/2020 19:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 7 12/16/2020 17:30 R00002

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IEEE Sri Lanka Section SYW Congress 2020 12/9/2020 9:00 R00002

IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka: The Launch of the Pre-Accelerator 10/29/2020 16:00 R00002

IEEE BOOST 2020 10/10/2020 9:00 R00002

SL Inspire: Career Compass Higher Education and Career Guidance 9/16/2020 16:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 6 9/10/2020 10:00 R00002

IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka: Learn How to Pitch 8/29/2020 16:00 R00002

IEEE Distinguished Lecture Series 8/1/2020 13:00 R00002

IEEE Sri Lanka Electronic Design Competition 2020 8/1/2020 9:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 5 7/24/2020 17:30 R00002

Webinar: “Post-Covid Engineering Education in Sri Lanka” 7/16/2020 16:30 R00002

IEEE Innovation Nation Sri Lanka: The Hustle Story 6/21/2020 16:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 4 6/18/2020 17:00 R00002

Webinar: “Deep Learning Based Video Analytics” 5/30/2020 16:30 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 3 5/7/2020 17:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 2 3/27/2020 19:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section Officer Training 2020 3/9/2020 9:00 R00002

IEEE Sri Lanka Section Student Branch Officer Training 2020 3/9/2020 8:30 R00002

SL Inspire: Career Compass 3/6/2020 16:00 R00002

SLInspire Career Compass Seminar Series 3/6/2020 9:00 R00002

IEEE SL Section ExCom Meeting 1 2/5/2020 15:30 R00002

IEEE Sri Lanka Section AGM 2020 1/24/2020 18:00 R00002

4th ExCom meeting: IEEE SL CRSS 12/30/2020 15:00 R0000201

Eyes on AI workshop II 12/29/2020 16:00 R0000201

Eyes on AI workshop I 12/28/2020 16:00 R0000201

Innovation Competition 12/26/2020 10:00 R0000201

Talk on Embedded Systems 12/2/2020 16:50 R0000201

3rd ExCom meeting: IEEE SL CRSS 9/22/2020 2:30 R0000201

2nd ExCom meeting: IEEE SL CRSS 5/14/2020 15:00 R0000201

1st ExCom meeting: IEEE SL CRSS 2/26/2020 10:00 R0000201

Guest Lecture on “Neurocomputing” 1/23/2020 16:00 R0000201

GLAMMOURFEMME '20 7/11/2020 18:00 SBA08341

Perpetual 1.0 3/5/2020 11:00 SBA08341

Graphico'20 - Part 3 10/16/2020 18:00 SBA10125

Graphico'20 - Part 2 10/14/2020 18:00 SBA10125

Graphico'20 - Part 1 9/30/2020 16:00 SBA10125

Women to rise above the pandemic 6/5/2020 17:00 SBA10125

Webinar 1 of Webinar Series on Packet Tracer 12/5/2020 16:30 SBA10441

Live Webinar: Accelerate Your Technical Career 5/9/2020 19:30 SBA10741

HackDown 2020 4/25/2020 14:00 SBA10741

Blossoming Smiles with Science Fun 1/9/2020 15:00 SBA10741

Demystifying DevOps - Webinar 2/23/2021 18:45 SBA17761

Py-Hack 2021 1/23/2021 17:00 SBA17761

Ladies Who Lead Workshop 3/7/2020 9:00 SBA17761

Communication Service Provider - 2020 12/3/2020 0:00 SBA18711

Discovering Yourself 3/12/2020 12:00 SBA18711

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Arduino Workshop 11/27/2020 19:00 SBA64625

Renewable Sources in Future Energy Scenarios 5/13/2020 18:00 SBC08341

Application’s in Computer and Machine vision 8/1/2020 16:00 SBC08341A

IEEEXtreme 14.0 10/24/2020 5:30 SBC08341B

IEEE Xtreme Webinar 8/4/2020 18:30 SBC08341B

CodeCon Hackathon 5/8/2020 8:00 SBC08341B

Knowledge Hub - Workshop 03 1/4/2021 18:00 SBC10125

ARDIOFLO 12/1/2020 12:00 SBC10125

ORATOR' 20 9/7/2020 12:00 SBC10125

Knowledge Hub - Workshop 02 6/23/2020 18:00 SBC10125

IEEE Green Innovation Sri Lanka (GISLA) 2020 6/1/2020 0:00 SBC10125

Mathematics Seminar Series for Students in SOS Children’s Village Sri Lanka 11/15/2020 14:00 SBC10441A

Webinar on "Drives and Controls for Industrial Automation" 1/16/2021 18:00 SBC10741A

IEEE PES Recruitment Campaign - 2020 12/27/2020 0:00 SBC10741A

"IEEE PES volunteer of the Year"- IEEE PES SBC University of Moratuwa 12/24/2020 9:00 SBC10741A

IEEE PES Awareness Session - IEEE PES Student Branch Chapter University of Moratuwa 12/13/2020 18:00 SBC10741A

E-Article Competition 8/17/2020 0:00 SBC10741A

Webinar on Integration of Solar Photovoltaic to the power Grid 7/13/2020 18:00 SBC10741A

Webinar on Lighting beyond an Equation 6/30/2020 18:30 SBC10741A

Webinar on Introduction to KNX Automation 6/6/2020 19:00 SBC10741A

IEEE OPEN DAY 2020 PES Promotion 3/5/2020 16:00 SBC10741A

IEEE FOR THE COUNTRYSIDE (ගමැ뷊දට IEEE අ퇒) 1/11/2020 8:30 SBC10741A

IEEE FOR THE COUNTRYSIDE (ගමැ뷊දට IEEE අ퇒) - PHASE 1 1/11/2020 8:30 SBC10741B IEEEXtreme 14.0 - Hosted by the Computer Society of IEEE Student Branch of University of 10/24/2020 5:30 SBC10741C Moratuwa

MoraXtreme 5.0 10/10/2020 6:00 SBC10741C

IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (Day 1) 2/7/2021 9:45 SBC10741D

IEEE EMBS International Student Conference (Day 1) 2/6/2021 10:00 SBC10741D

Thhink positive and Inspire success 1/25/2021 18:00 SBC10741D

Learn to publish 11/28/2020 19:00 SBC10741D

Future of Srilanka with Biomedical Engineering 8/15/2020 18:00 SBC10741D

Annual general meeting 7/23/2020 18:00 SBC10741D

Industrial Familiarization Program for Electrical Engineering 12/26/2020 18:00 SBC10741E

Handover Ceremony - 2020 8/15/2020 18:30 SBC10741E

IAS Comrades - Phase 2 3/10/2020 16:00 SBC10741E

IEEE Open Day 3/5/2020 17:00 SBC10741E

PCB Printing Workshop 3/5/2020 10:15 SBC10741E

Stream Up - Phase 2 3/3/2020 13:30 SBC10741E

PCB Design Workshop 2/27/2020 10:15 SBC10741E

IAS Comrades - Phase 1 2/12/2020 16:00 SBC10741E

IEEE for the Countryside (ගමැ뷊දට IEEE අ퇒) - Phase 1 1/11/2020 8:30 SBC10741E

Tech Talk 1.0 on Residential Microgrids of the Future… Today 1/20/2021 20:30 SBC10741G Distinguished Lecture (DL) on Wired and Wireless Grid Integration Methods of Electric Vehicles 12/6/2020 10:00 SBC10741G (EVs)

Orientation 2020 8/23/2020 19:00 SBC10741G

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Quarter Review Executive Committee Meeting 8/16/2020 20:30 SBC10741G

Webinar on Climbing the Ladder of Leadership with IEEE PELS 6/20/2020 18:00 SBC10741G

Webinar on Climbing the ladder of leadership with IEEE PELS 6/20/2020 18:00 SBC10741G

Election - IEEE Power Electronics Society, University of Moratuwa 6/1/2020 10:00 SBC10741G

Shine with IEEE Rising Stars 2021 11/28/2020 18:00 SBC10741G, SBC10741I, SBC10741H

Robotics for 21st Century 1/17/2021 16:00 SBC10741H

Introduction to IES 11/19/2020 21:00 SBC10741H

How to build your career in Electronics? 10/14/2020 19:00 SBC10741H

IEEE IES Annual General Meeting 2020 9/5/2020 20:00 SBC10741H ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF IEEE NPSS STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER - 1/16/2021 20:30 SBC10741I UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA

INTRODUCTORY SESSION TO IEEE NPSS 11/22/2020 21:00 SBC10741I

WORKSHOP ON LIGHT FIELD PROCESSING 2/6/2021 13:00 SBC10741J

WEBINAR ON META LEARNING 1/31/2021 10:30 SBC10741J

ADVANCES IN DEEP LEARNING WEBINAR 11/28/2020 13:00 SBC10741J HARDWARE SIGNAL PROCESSING - FPGA IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS OF DSP 10/29/2020 10:30 SBC10741J ALGORITHMS WEBINAR ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING SOCIETY STUDENT 9/24/2020 19:00 SBC10741J BRANCH CHAPTER - UNIVERSITY OF MORATUWA

Flutter webinar 2/21/2021 15:00 SBC17761

Industry Xpectations 1/20/2021 18:00 SBC17761

CodeRally 2.0 12/22/2020 18:00 SBC17761

WEBINAR ON POWER QUALITY - A SUBJECT OF INCREASING INTEREST 7/10/2020 16:00 SBC18711A WEBINAR ON BATTERY TECHNOLOGY ON SUSTAINABLE ENERGY & TRANSPORT 6/19/2020 16:00 SBC18711A SYSTEMS The Annual General Meeting of the IEEE IAS Student Branch Chapter University of Peradeniya 3/2/2020 17:00 SBC18711B 2020

IAS COMRADES phase 1 2/12/2020 17:30 SBC18711B

IEEE MTT-S UOP SBC ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2020 3/3/2020 17:00 SBC18711C

IEEE PCB Design and Fabrication Workshop 3/5/2020 17:30 SBC18711D The Annual General Meeting of the IEEE RAS Student Branch Chapter University of Peradeniya 2/24/2020 17:00 SBC18711D 2020

CV Writing Workshop 10/3/2020 16:00 STB08341

IEEE Member Registrations '20 8/1/2020 8:00 STB08341

Do You Know Post Series 5/17/2020 18:30 STB08341

IEEEXtreme - -2020 10/24/2020 5:30 STB10040

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 9/21/2020 12:00 STB10040

Webinar on how to enrich your next project with micro-services 8/29/2020 18:00 STB10040

How to use Cloud Platform for Machine Learning Projects 7/28/2020 18:00 STB10040

IEEE-Awareness Session 6/27/2020 18:00 STB10040

Way to Wisdom 1/9/2021 17:00 STB10125

How to write a Research Paper 11/21/2020 18:30 STB10125

Road to Codemania 9/30/2020 10:00 STB10125

Road to Codemania - Part 3 9/14/2020 16:00 STB10125

Road to Codemania - Part 2 9/7/2020 16:00 STB10125

Road to Codemania - Part 1 8/31/2020 16:00 STB10125

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Sky High AI 2/12/2020 16:30 STB10153

Introduction to Hackathon Workshop 9/21/2020 17:30 STB10441

PCB Design Workshop Part 01 8/24/2020 16:30 STB10441

Lighting Design Workshop on DIALux 1/3/2020 16:30 STB10441

"The Social Dilemma" Webinar 11/14/2020 10:00 STB10741

IEEE Day 2020 10/3/2020 10:00 STB10741

Student Branch Executive Committee Monthly Meeting 8/1/2020 20:00 STB10741

MERCon 2020 7/28/2020 8:00 STB10741

Annual General Meeting of IEEE Student Branch University of Moratuwa 7/13/2020 17:00 STB10741

Student Branch Secretary/ Assistant Secretary Transition 2020 6/25/2020 15:00 STB10741

Student Branch Executive Committee meeting 02 (2020) 6/24/2020 15:00 STB10741

Student Branch Executive Committee meeting 01 (2020) 6/23/2020 20:00 STB10741

IEEE Open Day 2020 3/5/2020 16:30 STB10741

IEEEXtreme 13.0 & MoraXtreme 4.0 Awards Ceremony 1/14/2020 17:30 STB10741

IEEE FOR THE COUNTRYSIDE (ගමැ뷊දට IEEE අ퇒) 1/11/2020 8:30 STB10741

BLOSSOMING SMILES with Science Fun - 2020 1/9/2020 15:00 STB10741

Third Monthly Meeting - Term 19/20 1/2/2020 11:30 STB10741

IEEE New Year Celebration 2020 1/2/2020 10:15 STB10741

Heading Towards Industry 4.0 with Disruptive Smart Technologies 1/11/2021 19:00 STB11372

Google Hash Code Hub 2/25/2021 23:00 STB11373

Confidence in AI systems: Can we trust AI-based systems? 2/16/2021 8:30 STB11373

Benvenuto 2021 1/24/2021 18:00 STB11373

Learn with IBM 12/28/2020 17:30 STB11373

IEEE Awareness Session 12/24/2020 13:00 STB11373

How to cope with stress in online learning during COVID-19 pandemic situation? 12/20/2020 16:00 STB11373

Learn the Journey from Undergraduate to Postgraduate 12/7/2020 12:00 STB11373

User Interface/ User Experience(UI/UX) Design 12/7/2020 10:00 STB11373

Project Management Methodologies 11/30/2020 10:00 STB11373

Introduction to Quality Engineering 11/25/2020 15:00 STB11373

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 11/18/2020 15:00 STB11373

IEEEXtreme 14.0 Coding Competition - University of Jaffna edition 10/24/2020 5:30 STB11373

IEEEXtreme 14.0 Awareness Session 10/17/2020 13:00 STB11373

Celebrating IEEE Day 10/6/2020 16:00 STB11373

Introduction to Game Development Session 2 6/15/2020 12:30 STB11373

Introduction to Game Development Session 1 6/11/2020 15:00 STB11373

Women in Engineering 5/17/2020 15:30 STB11373

IEEE Xplore 5/14/2020 16:00 STB11373

IEEE SL Inspire Career Compass 3/7/2020 8:30 STB11373

IEEE SL Inspire Career Compass 3/6/2020 8:30 STB11373

Welcome to IEEE 1/21/2020 13:30 STB11373

"Welcome to IEEE" 1/21/2020 13:30 STB11373

VersusCOVID Competition 6/4/2020 8:00 STB18711

IEEE PCB Design and Fabrication Workshop 3/5/2020 17:30 STB18711

DOCKER WORKSHOP 1/16/2020 10:00 STB64278

IEEE Day 2020 10/17/2020 19:00 STB64625

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IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 08 12/30/2020 20:30 WE00002

WIESymp2020 11/15/2020 9:00 WE00002 Outreach Activity – Invited Talk on “Biomedical Image Analysis and Applications of Deep 10/26/2020 16:00 WE00002 Learning”

IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 07 10/25/2020 21:00 WE00002

IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 06 8/28/2020 20:30 WE00002

Webinar "Blockchain for 5G IoT" 7/24/2020 17:30 WE00002

Code with WIE - Finals 7/5/2020 9:00 WE00002

IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 05 7/2/2020 17:30 WE00002

Webinar on "Business Modeling" - Code with WIE 6/25/2020 15:00 WE00002

IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 04 6/4/2020 19:00 WE00002

Webinar "Deep Learning Based Video Analytics" 5/30/2020 16:30 WE00002

Code with WIE - Round 1 5/10/2020 9:00 WE00002

Webinar "How to be a Good Researcher" 4/30/2020 18:00 WE00002

IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 03 3/31/2020 19:00 WE00002

Interactive Workshop 3/7/2020 9:00 WE00002

IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 02 3/5/2020 20:30 WE00002

IEEE WIE SL Section ExCom Meeting 01 1/30/2020 21:30 WE00002

Annual General Meeting 2020 of IEEE WIE Sri Lanka Section 1/18/2020 9:00 WE00002

AI-Driven Sri Lanka : Panel discussion on AI adoption 10/20/2020 19:00 YP00002

IEEE YP LETs Talk: B.Sc. to Ph.D. Combining Machine Learning with Physics 7/14/2020 19:00 YP00002

IEEE YP LETs Talk: Demystifying Pricing. 6/23/2020 19:00 YP00002

IEEE YP LETs Talk: Innovation in a time of crisis 6/16/2020 19:00 YP00002

IEEE YP LETs Talk: Corona is not the Only Virus 5/19/2020 19:00 YP00002

IEEE YP LETs Talk: Mani Talks Money 4/8/2020 19:00 YP00002

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