ACES OUTLINE The Newsletter 2019 | Page 24

22 ACES Newsletter 2019 - University of Peradeniya Team eyeCoders, Rusiru Thushara, NuwanPiyarathna, Nayana Thilanka, a group of second-year students from the Department of Computer Engineering has emerged second runners up at the IESL Techno Hackathon-Xtreme which was held on the 12th of October 2019. Dimuth Wickramanayake, an immediate graduate of the department (E/13 batch) has been awarded the Migara Ratnatunga Trust Award for Industrial Training for Undergraduates -2018/2019. It is awarded by the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) for the best industrial trainee project in Sri Lanka under the discipline of computer engineering. Dimuthu was presented with this award (a cash prize and certificate) at the IESL induction and graduation ceremony. Team Testing123 of Prabhath Bandara, Kaveesha Dilshani, Chamara Gunarathne and Shehan Perera has been able to emerge as the 1st runner up at iHack 5.0 Inter-University hackathon organized by University of Colombo School of Computing ISACA Student Group and held on the 26th and 27th of October 2019. CONGRATULATIONS FOR YOUR FOREIGN INTERNSHIPS Suren Harshana Sumedha Samarakoon Antwerp , Belgium AI Autonomous Network Research Team Antwerp , Belgium AI Autonomous Network Research Team Enschede, Netherlands Commercial development of facial recognition tools Research Assistant Shyaman Gihan Sandali School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University Video processing Visiting Research Student Institute of Data Science, National University of Singapore Key influencers in social media Research Intern Sritharan Jayasundara Jayathilaka Hiruna Lokuge cse.mrt - Computer Science Engineering, University of Moratuwa ce.pdn - Computer Engineering, University of Peradeniya eee.pdn - Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya me.pdn - Mechanical Engineering, University of Peradeniya Bozeman, Montana, USA BioNLP Research Assistant