2025 · Faculty Awards
Faculty Award for Academic Outreach and Institutional Development; Faculty Award for Research Excellence (details supplied for the 2025 update).
Competitive research and outreach grants
2026 · TWAS
Research grant: Development of a Microfluidic Sweat Patch with Enhanced Adhesion for Equatorial Climates
USD 21,0002026 · National Science Foundation
RG/2025/BS/16: Development of Printed Flexible EMI Shielding Materials Using Locally Sourced Conductive Inks for IoT and Wearable Applications
LKR 3.84 million2025 · National Research Council
NRC-IDG 2024: Scalable Production of Physically Unclonable Functions Using Optimized Graphene-Based Inks for Defense and Secure IoT Applications
LKR 3.0 million2021 · TWAS
Development of a conductive graphene ink for manufacturing of flexible electronics (group grant)
USD 40,0002021 · SPIE
Science Bus: travelling science outreach to underserved rural communities
USD 2,500Awards and recognition
2022–2024 · Faculty recognition
Academic Outreach and Institutional Development awards recorded by the University of Colombo in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
2020–2021 · Research excellence
Faculty Research Excellence awards (2020 and 2021) and Senate early-career research commendations associated with 2020 and 2021.
2017 & 2019 · Best poster
Third-place best poster recognition at electronics packaging symposia at GE Research Center, New York.