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31 January 2024CrickOverflow 2023 Concludes SuccessfullyCricOverflow, cricket encounter organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa on December 23, 2023, was a spirited display of friendly competition and camaraderie.
31 January 2024Washington Accord Re-Accreditation Successfully CompletedThe Washington Accord re-accreditation visit to evaluate the Computer Science & Engineering Degree at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, concluded successfully on September 13, 2023 with the IESL awarding full Washington Accord Accreditation to the CSE programme.
8 December 2023Prof. Sanath Jayasena Honored with the Silver Award for National Educator Award in ComputingIn a momentous occasion at the inaugural National Educator Awards 2023, the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, takes immense pride in congratulating Prof. Sanath Jayasena on being conferred with the Silver Award for the prestigious National Educator Award in Computing.
29 November 2023President's Awards for Scientific Research 2023 (for the year 2020 publications)We are thrilled to share a momentous achievement by our past students from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Their outstanding bachelor thesis has been honored with the President’s Award for Scientific Research by His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka (Hon. Ranil Wickremesinghe). The accolade recognizes their paper titled "Change Detection and Notification of Web Pages: A Survey," published in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR).
16 November 2023Empowering Innovation: University of Moratuwa's Success at the 25th National ICT Awards - NBQSA 2023The University of Moratuwa's Computer Science Department celebrates Dilith Jayakody's achievement. His final year project, "Reinforcement Learning-based Remote Sensing Index Generation," clinched the Bronze Award in the Research and Development Project of the Year category at the 2023 National ICT Awards - NBQSA.
16 November 2023Hyperglade: A Success Story of CSE AlumniCSE alumni exhibit their excellence in different arenas in a multitude of ways. Contributing to the growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the country through their innovation is one such way that has given rise to several giants in the Sri Lankan IT industry over the years. Through this article, we celebrate the emergence of yet another innovative venture by CSE alumni: Hyperglade.
13 November 2023CSE Students Shine at Red Cloud Summit"Team Deciphers" and "Team De Bait" secured the second runner-up positions in the Capture The Flag (CTF) and Debate competitions, respectively, at the Red Cloud Summit at INFOTEL 2023.
2 November 2023The CSE Newsletter Volume 01 is out now!We are excited to bring you the first edition of our department newsletter, where we take pride in sharing the remarkable stories, achievements, and opportunities that define our dynamic community. In this newsletter, you will also find details on events, both large and small, which play a major role in fostering a sense of collaboration within our department. Whether it's the grand opening of a new lab or a guest lecture by an industry expert, these events offer a platform for knowledge exchange and networking. News Letter Volume 01 is now available covering the news from July to September 2023.
2 February 2023The Department of Computer Science and Engineering joins hands with CERNThe Department of Computer Science and Engineering of University of Moratuwa has become an associate member of the ALICE experiment - one of the 4 main experiments at CERN focusing on the study of the physics of strongly interacting matter at the highest energy densities. To this end, Dr. Luciano Musa, spokesperson for the ALICE collaboration, and Prof. Indika Perera, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering initiated a collaboration between the two institutions. The collaboration will allow the students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering to contribute to the projects at ALICE experiment exposing them to practical applications of high performance computing infrastructure and software.
10 February 2022REBIRTH - INTELLISENSE AGREEMENT TO PROTOTYPE A MULTI-ROBOT MAPPING AND NAVIGATION SYSTEMRebirth Technologies (Pvt) Ltd, a Swedish-Sri Lankan technology startup and IntelliSense Lab of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa entered into an agreement for collaborative development of robotic technology for applications that currently require human operators to undertake tedious tasks or work in hazardous environments. The agreement was signed on the 23rd of April 2019 by Prof. Kapila Perera, the Vice Chancellor, University of Moratuwa and Mr. Subodha Perera, the Managing Director of Rebirth Technologies (Pvt) Ltd
10 February 2022IESL ROBOGAMES 2020"IESL 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...
10 February 2022NLP Symposium 2020The 6th annual Symposium on Natural Language Processing - 2020 (SNLP 2020) organized by the Natural Language Processing Centre of University of Moratuwa with the aim of fostering the NLP based research work in Sri Lanka took place on 20th October 2020 as a virtual event. This symposium facilitates linguists, computer linguists, computer scientists to share and discuss their research and ideas. The keynote speaker was Prof. Asif Ekbal from the Department of...