“I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist, and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.”
John Steinbeck
Isuru received his B.Sc. degree in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2011, and his Ph.D.
degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 2016. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Computer Engineering at the University of Peradeniya. He has a keen interest in
improving the quality of Engineering Education and research. Isuru is currently involved in curriculum development and devising learner-centered delivery methods.
Resource person on ICT Skills in
Education for the academic staff, Staff Development Centre,
Rajarata University Sri Lanka, 2021.
Developing guidelines to hold online proctored examinations, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2021.
Supervising the first ever online proctored examination held at the Faculty of
Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2021.
Conducting seminars and training sessions on Holding Examinations Online
for: •Faculty of Engineering,
University of Peradeniya, 2021 •Centre for Distance and
Continuing Education, University of Peradeniya, 2021 •Faculty of Science, University
of Peradeniya, 2021 •Faculty of Science, University
of Kelaniya, 2021 •Faculty of Allied Health
Sciences, University of Peradeniya, 2021
Resource person on Authentic Online
Assessments for the academic staff, Staff Development Centre,
Eastern University of Sri Lanka, 2021.
Curriculum design, development and coordination, BScEng – Computer
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2019-2021 (ongoing).
Revision and development of the common first semester curriculum, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2019.
Curriculum development for RUSL Electrical and Computer Engineering Degree
Program (Systems Modeling and Simulation, Operating Systems), Rajarata University of Sri Lanka,
2017/2018.
Design and development of an Instructor Development Program for
the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2019.
Conceptualization and development of cross-curricular projects for third year
Computer Engineering undergraduates, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2017 onward.
Member of the Board of Study for the General Programme in Engineering, Faculty
of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, in 2018-2019.
Timetable Committee member, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya,
2018 onward.
Initiation and implementation of the Casual Instructors programme at the
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya.
Undergraduate program delivery planning and management for Computer Engineering
specialization (timetabling, resource allocation and workload distribution), Faculty of Engineering,
University of Peradeniya, 2019 onward.
Infrastructure development for Computer Engineering specialization (planning and
management of the building expansion and restructuring process, planning and design of several new
laboratories, infrastructure for learner-centered-education, procurement and inventory management), Faculty
of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2017 onward.
Conceptualization, design and development of the ESCAL Makerspace
Laboratory,
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2020-2022.
Conceptualization, design and development of the ESCAL Robotics
Laboratory,
Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2018-2022.
Assistance to FADPC for the planning of online program delivery during the 2020
COVID-19 pandemic, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2020.
Administrator of the University of Peradeniya on Coursera online program,
2020.
Preparation of an enhanced examination moderation process for Computer
Engineering specialization, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2019.
Faculty of Engineering representative in the Power and Audio Visual Committee of
iPURSE 2019, University of Peradeniya.
Resource person in the Soft Skills
Awareness Workshop in the foundation programme, Faculty of
Engineering, University of Peradeniya, in 2016.
Resource person in the Portfolio
Building Awareness Workshop for Computer Engineering
Students, at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 2016 onward.
Session Chair in the UNSW Engineering
Postgraduate Research Symposium, at the University of New
South Wales, in 2015.
Voluntary work in the 6th IEEE International Conference on Industrial and Information
Systems at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, in 2011.
Research projects supervised by Dr. Isuru Nawinne:
Configurable ECU Emulator
Undergraduate Research Projects
Enhancing Video Game Experience With Brain Computer Interface
Undergraduate Research Projects
Hardware Cache Switching with Operating System Context Switches
Undergraduate Research Projects
neuromorphic architecture
Undergraduate Research Projects
swarm intelligence programming framework
Undergraduate Research Projects
Brain Computer Interface for controlling virtual objects
Undergraduate Research Projects
Please note that here only contain the 'Projects' which were submitted to the
projects.ce.pdn.ac.lk as Final Year Research Projects. The actual list of projects supervised by Dr. Isuru Nawinne may be longer than this.
Research Interests:
Computer Architecture
Design Automation of Microprocessor Systems
FPGA-based hardware acceleration
Robotics and Multi-agent Intelligent Systems
Biomedical Engineering
Publications:
A Programming Framework for Robot Swarms
Mahendra Dassanayaka, Tharuka Bandara, Nadun Adikari, Isuru Nawinne, Roshan Ragel,
2020 Moratuwa Engineering Research Conference (MERCon), 2020
doi: 10.1109/MERCon50084.2020.9185206
Heterogeneous processor pipeline for a product cipher application
Isuru B. Nawinne, Mahanama S. Wickramasinghe, Roshan G. Ragel, Member, Swarnalatha Radhakrishnan,
2011 6th International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems, 2011
doi: 10.1109/ICIINFS.2011.6038036
#Pipelines#Encryption#Algorithm design and analysis#Partitioning algorithms#Streaming media#Computer architecture
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