Dr. Thilini Rajakaruna

Senior Lecturer (Higher Grade)

Faculty of Engineering | Mechanical Engineering

Career Summary

Nov 2019 - to date Senior Lecturer (HG), Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institite of Information Technology, Sri Lanka
Jan 2018 – Oct 2019 Senior Lecturer Gr. I, School of Engineering, Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka
Jan 2012 – Dec 2017 Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Engineering, South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine, Sri Lanka
Sep 2008 – Nov 2011 Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK
Sep 2008 – Nov 2011 Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey, UK
Aug 2007 – Aug 2008 IP Networks Engineer, Sri Lanka Telecom PLC, IP and Data Network Operations Division, Sri Lanka

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. (Univeristy of Surrey, UK)
B.Sc. in Eng (Hons.) (Peradeniya)

HONOURS AND AWARDS

Recipient of research grant under Indo-Sri Lanka Joint Research Programme, MSTR, Principal Investigator (Sri Lankan side), 2017
Best paper Award IEEE 8th International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (UMEDIA), 2015
ISOC Fellowship to the IETF-91, Honolulu, USA, Awarded by the Next generation Leadership Program of Internet Society (ISOC), Nov. 2014.
Overseas Research Scholarship Award Scheme (ORSAS) Award for 2008-2011 by, the Higher Education Council of England, UK
Postgraduate Research Studentship Awarded by, Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK. 2008-2011

Research Interests and Memberships

Research Interests

Video compression and encoder optimization
Signal, image and video processing
Real-time multimedia applications
Machine vision

Memberships

Ongoing Research

My Publications

Conference Proceedings

A. M. Welhenge, R. D. Wijesinghe, R.M.T.P. Rajakaruna Robotic Gripper Design to Handle an Arbitrarily Shaped Object by Emulating Human Finger Motion in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Ubi-Media Computing (UMEDIA), year 2015, Colombo, Sri Lanka, pp.330-334, IEEE,
R.M.T.P. Rajakaruna, W.A.C. Fernando, J. Calic "Lagrange-based Video Encoder Optimisation to Enhance Motion Representation in the Compressed-Domain" in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), year 2012, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, pp.479-484, IEEE,
R.M.T.P. Rajakaruna, W.A.C. Fernando, J. Calic Video Encoder Optimization for Efficient Video Analysis in Resource-limited Systems in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems (ICIIS), year 2011, pp.175-180, IEEE,
R.M.T.P. Rajakaruna, W.A.C. Fernando, J. Calic "Application-Aware Video Coding Architecture Using Camera and Object Motion-Models" in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems. (ICIIS), year 2011, pp.p.76-81, IEEE,
R.M.T.P. Rajakaruna, W.A.C. Fernando, J. Calic in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, (ICASSP), year 2010, Dallas, TX, USA, pp.1102-1105, IEEE, R.M.T.P. Rajakaruna, W.A.C. Fernando, J. Calic,
B. P. H. K. M. D. Senarathna, R. M. T. P. Rajakaruna Feature Descriptor for Sri Lankan Batik Patterns Using Hu Moment Invariants and GLCM in 10th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), year 2021, Sri Lanka, pp.197-202, IEEE, August 2021,
I. D. V. J. Dhanawansa, R. M. T. P. Rajakaruna Sinhala Sign Language Interpreter Optimized for Real - Time Implementation on a Mobile Device in 10th IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS), year 2021, Sri Lanka, pp.422-427, IEEE, I. D. V. J. Dhanawansa, R. M. T. P. Rajakaruna,