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6 October 2026CSE team from UoM won a Merit Award at NBQSA 2026Mr. Savinu Aththanayake, Mr. Sajeev Kugarajah, Ms. Chemini Mallikarachchi, and Ms. Janeesha Wickramasinghe from the Batch 21, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, were awarded a Merit award in the Tertiary Student category, at the NBQSA 2026, for their final year project on “AI-Assisted Resilient Disaster Response Solution”.
25 September 2026Winners- Tertiary Category- Tourism Start-Up Competition 2026 - "AI-Driven Innovation for the Future of Tourism"The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), in celebration of World Tourism Day 2026, organized the Tourism Start-Up Competition 2026 under the theme "AI-Driven Innovation for the Future of Tourism”. The event was held on 25th September 2026, at Taj Samudra Hotel, Colombo, in conjunction with the celebration of World Tourism Day 2026. Dep. of CSE Congratulate Mr. T. Praveen Nawarathna, Mr. D. I. R. Tharusha Perera, Mr.Bimsara udurawana, Mr. Janith mahamana and Mr. Maleesha Kumarasinghe from Batch23-CSE for awarding as Winners of the Tertiary Category.
12 October 2025CSE team from UoM Honoured with a Merit Award at NBQSA 2025Mr. Kavindu Warnakulasuriya, Mr. Navindu De Silva, and Mr. Prabhash Dissanayake from the Batch 20, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, received a Merit Award in the Tertiary Student Project (Technology) Category at the National ICT Awards NBQSA 2025 for their final year project titled “Evolution of Cooperation in LLM Agent Societies”. The National Best Quality ICT Awards (NBQSA) is recognised as Sri Lanka's most prestigious event for rewarding Sri Lankan software applications and ICT enterprises. Organised by the Sri Lankan Section of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (UK), the awards celebrate outstanding ICT products and solutions developed by individuals and organisations across the country. NBQSA aims to elevate local ICT standards to meet international benchmarks, promote creativity, and identify emerging talent. It also serves as a gateway for Sri Lankan innovations to gain global recognition and exposure.
11 October 2025CSE team from UoM won the Best Students Research Project Award and a Merit Award at NBQSA 2025Mr. Dakshina Ranmal, Ms. Piumini Ranashinghe, and Mr. Thivindu Paranayapa, from the Batch 19, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, were awarded two awards: the Best Students Research Project of the Year award and the Merit award in the Tertiary Student category, at the NBQSA 2025, for their final year project titled “Deep Learning Optimization for Forest Sound Classification”.
30 October 2024Team InAirSignature honoured with a Merit Award at NBQSA 2024Team “InAirSignature” — comprising Mr. T. Abinesh, Mr. M. Jathavan, and Mr. G. Vinojith — received a Merit Award for their pioneering work on a cutting-edge in-air signature identification and verification system. The event showcased the highest-quality ICT projects and products in Sri Lanka, and the students’ success highlights their ingenuity.
30 October 2024Team WildSight360 honoured with a Merit Award at NBQSA 2024Team WildSight360, consisting of Mr. Dinuka Thathsara Jinadasa, Mr. Nuwan Jayasanka Mohotti, and Mr. Sumeela Madusankha from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, has been honored with a Merit Award at the National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2024. This award recognizes their final-year project, a wildlife monitoring system created to support conservation efforts using deep learning technology in challenging environments.
30 October 2024Best Solution Addressing National Disasters at NBQSA 2024Mr. Imantha Ahangama, a postgraduate student in Computer Science and Engineering, has received the Best Solution Addressing National Disasters award at the National Best Quality Software Awards (NBQSA) 2024 for his project, “Precipitation Nowcasting with Explainable Artificial Intelligence.”
10 February 2022Best ICT Student of the Year 2017Keet Sugathadasa of batch’13 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering won the title of “Best ICT Student of the Year 2017” from the Computer Society of Sri Lanka at the National IT Conference held on 13th September 2017. Being a promising student, Keet has topped in his batch for consecutive years maintaining a cumulative GPA of 4.05 out of 4.2. He also won many awards in both national and international levels including Google I/O 2016, CakeLabs IoT Hackathon, IESL YMS Hackthon Fiontrai 2016, Cima Launchpad 2016, Yarl Geek Challenge, Hackadev 2015, and AirAsia Air- volution 2017.
10 February 2022Sahasak Nimavum Golden AwardSahasak Nimavum 2016, National Exhibition for Inventions and Innovations organized by the Sri Lanka Inventors Commission was held at the Nelum Pokuna Theatre, Colombo 7 on 26th of October 2016. A robot kit invented targeting kids by a team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering won the 1st place in the field of applied science and technology. The team consists of Yasura Gimhan Kossinhala Vithana, Hashini Hiranya Senaratne, Pubudu Chinthaka Gunatilaka, and Udith Arosha Gunaratna. The robot kid invention is a simple, interactive and expandable robot kit targeting kids. The invention consists of both hardware and software. A child can build robots with different capabilities by combining blocks like building a structure using building blocks. The software component automatically detects the capabilities of the robot that the child builds and allows him to program the robot using a very simple, drag and drop visual programming environment which is very similar to natural language commanding. The invention also allows community to develop hardware components compatible with the system and that creates another line of business.
10 February 2022SLCERT|CC Information Security Quiz WinnersSri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team, (Sri Lanka CERT| CC) organized the Information Security Quiz Competition for university students in Sri Lanka for the Cyber Security Week, 2016. Sri Lanka CERT is the Centre of cyber security in Sri Lanka, mandated by the government of Sri Lanka to protect the nation’s information infrastructure. Three teams from the University of Moratuwa participated for the competition: Mora Avengers, Phoenix, and Smurfs. The team Smurfs : Yasiru Kassapa (CSE ’12), Dinuka Salwathura (CSE ‘13), and Imesha Mihirath (CSE ’13) from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering won the first place in the competition. Competitors were trained by CSE alumni Ridwan Sharifdeen and Deepal Jayasekara who are active members of the Information Security Club. Team Smurfs was able to win the Cloud Security round prize while Team Phoenix won the Basic Security Round Prize. All the teams Smurfs, Phoenix and mora avengers scored 109, 90 and 90 points respectively in the competition.
10 February 2022NBQSA 2017 WinnersThe gold award in the commercial and tertiary technology category at the National Best Quality Software Awards 2017 was won by a team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The team members are Dimuthu Kariyawasam, Buddhi Ayesha, Keet Sugathadasa and Vindula Jayawardana of batch 13 who worked under the supervision of Dr. Amal Shehan Perera. The award winning product is “Inhalo”, which addresses the issue of treating asthma in children. Inhalo is a product that aims at motivating children to carry out proper breathing practices and continuous inhaler-use. The product comes with a headset that identifies breathing patterns of the user, and a mobile game that motivates children to use the inhaler and get healthier as they play. The game also supports single player and multi-player features. Inhalo is simply a treatment for asthma, based on gamification. The winners of the commercial and tertiary categories were awarded the BCS (British Computer Society) awards by the chief guest Hon. Harin Fernando, Ministry of Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure and guest of honour Mr. Paul Martynenko, President of BCS the chartered institute for IT, United Kingdom.
10 February 2022IESL ROBOGAMES 2020IESL RoboGames 2020 was held on the 28th of November 2020 as the first ever virtual robotic competition in Sri Lanka. RoboGames has been a key event of Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) since 2013 organized by The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa in collaboration with the IT & Sectional committee of the IESL. Sri Lanka Telecom PLC has been powering up the event since 2017. RoboGames aims at promoting and recognizing the talents and skills of the next generation of professionals in a rapidly advancing area like robotics. This time the competition was based on Webots, a robot simulation software platform that offers a prototyping environment for users to access necessary virtual hardware and test their programming capability. The two categories of competitors, namely school category and university category competed with their mobile robots in a maze of a city to complete a task themed on Covid-19 pandemic. The competitors designed a virtual mobile robot with necessary sensors and control and programmed it to navigate through the maze to reach a pre-defined destination from a common initial position. The robot had to avoid the Covid infected pedestrians in the maze and reach as many sanitizer points as possible to score points along the path. University category was challenged to use computer vision-based navigation while the school category was allowed to react to markers placed on the maze. A series of successful online workshops and awareness sessions were conducted to introduce the concept of robotics and prepare the competitors. RoboGames 2020 was successful with registrations of over 20 teams in School Category and 44 teams in University Category spanning many districts across the country thus breaking the barrier of lack of knowledge and facilities for robotic fans and newbies. Four teams from the School category and 7 teams from the University category were through to the final. Eng. Vidula Hasaranga, Eng. Rusiru Boralugoda and Eng. Kushan Sharma were the panel of industry experts at the grand finale and the competition concluded with an exhaustive evaluation to review code quality, robot design, and the competitors’ understanding and creativity with algorithms in addition to the simulation score. Team Trix from Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala won the championship in the School Category while Team Circuit Breakers from University of Moratuwa won the University Category.
