Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade)

CAREER SUMMARY

  • Lasantha Seneviratne is an academic in the field of Electronic Engineering, and has worked as an academic/researcher in several Universities/Institutes and Organisations, including Queen Mary University of London, UK and John Keells Office Automation (Pvt) Ltd. Currently, he is a senior lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Malabe, Sri Lanka.
  • 01/2012 to date – Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka.
  • 2014 - 2015 – Head of the Department, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka.
  • 11/2008 – 09/2011 – Research Associate/ Postdoctoral Fellow in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Queen Mary University of London, Uk.
  • 01/2003 – 09/2004 – Customer Support Executive Technical, Lanka Internet Services (Pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
  • 01/2001 – 01/2003 - Customer Support Officer Technical, John Keells Office Automations (pvt) Ltd, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • Ph.D. (QMUL, UK), B.Eng (Hons)

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP

Research Interests

  • Vision Based Automation
  • Image Stitching
  • Automobile Electronics
  • Forecasting Algorithms
  • Image Annotation

Memberships

  • Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Inc. (IEEE)

Research Clusters

Computer Vision - Industrial Automation

"Developing cutting-edge vision-based automation and assistive robotics to enhance industrial efficiency, safety, and human-machine collaboration.

Wireless sensor networks, Vision based tracking, Assistive Robots"

PUBLICATIONS

  • Conference Proceedings 2009

    Image Annotation through Gaming (TAG4 FUN)

    L. Seneviratne and E. Izquierdo, (16th International conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP))

  • Conference Proceedings 2010

    An Interactive Game for Semi-Automatic Image Annotation

    L. Seneviratne and E. Izquierdo, (35th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP))

  • Conference Proceedings 2010

    An Interactive Framework for Image Annotation through Gaming

    L. Seneviratne and E. Izquierdo, (in Proc. of 11th ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR))

  • Conference Proceedings 2011

    A Mathematical Approach Towards Semi-Automatic Image Annotation

    L. Seneviratne and E. Izquierdo, (European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO))

  • Conference Proceedings 2013

    Enhanced Feature Extraction Method for Hand Gesture Recognition Using Support Vector Machine

    P.W.G.D. Shaminda, I.D.T. Prabash, N.S. Hettiarachchige, U.A.A. Niroshika, E.M.P.S. Edirisinghe and L. Seneviratne, (IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS))

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