Lecturer
Email: ksm@sjp.ac.lk
Office TP: 0112758363
Research interests: Embedded System Designing, FPGA – Development, Medical Instrumentation, Nuclear Instrumentation, Signal Processing
Undergraduate Teaching:
- PHY 124 2.0 Electricity and Magnetism
- PHY 121 2.0 Geometrical Optics and Waves & Vibrations
- PHY 125 2.0 Practical (Elementary)
- PHY 331 1.0 Introduction to Computer Hardware
- EES 128 1.0 Circuit Simulations and Design Lab
- EES 201 1.0 Sensors and Actuators
- EES 206 2.0 Advanced Analog and Digital Electronics (Digital Section)
- EES 208 1.0 Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Lab
- EES 303 1.0 Embedded Systems Development Lab
Workshops/Seminars
- Lecturer and Laboratory Tutor of the “School and conference on Fully-Programmable Systems-On-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation”, held at the Gauhati University, India, from 2 to9 November 2019.
- Laboratory Tutor of the “Advanced Workshop on Modern FPGA-based Technology for Scientific Computing”, held at ICTP, Italy, from 13 to 24 May 2019.
- Lecturer and Laboratory Tutor of the “Advanced Workshop on FPGA-based Systems-On-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation and Reconfigurable Computing”, held at ICTP, Italy, from 26 November to 7 December 2018.
- Laboratory Tutor of the “Advanced School on Programmable System-on-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation”, held at ICTP, Italy, from 20 November to 1 December 2017.
- Laboratory Tutor of the “School on Zynq-7000 SoC and its Applications for Nuclear and Related Instrumentation”, held at ICTP, Italy, from 21 August to 15 September 2017.
- Lecturer and Laboratory Tutor of the “Regional Workshop and Conference on Advanced Reconfigurable Instrumentation for Scientific Applications”, held at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, from 14 to 25 November 2016.
- Laboratory Tutor of the “Asian Regional School on FPGA Design for Scientific Instrumentation”, held at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan, from 7 to 18 December 2015.
EDUCATION
- Master of Science in Applied Electronics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Thesis Title: Field Programmable Gate Array based data processing for robot control.
- Bachelor of Science (Special) degree in Physics with First Class Honors, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
OCCUPATION
- 2015 – to date, Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
- 2011 – 2015, Probationary Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.
Fellowships and Positions
- OFID/STEP Fellowship at ICTP, MLAB, Italy; from 2016 till 2018.
- Associate Researcher at INFN, Italy; from 2016 till 2018.
Publications
- Book Chapters
- D.R. Perera, K.S. Mannatunga, R.A.D.D. Darmasiri, R.G.N. Meegama, and M.K. Jayananda, “Implementation of a Smart Sensor Node for Wireless Sensor Network Applications using FPGAs”, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technologies for High Performance Instrumentation. IGI Global, 2016.
- Refereed Journals
- S. Mannatunga et al., “High Performance 128-Channel Acquisition System for Electrophysiological Signals”, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 122366-122383, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3007082
- Carrato, K.S. Mannatunga et al., “A scalable High Voltage Power Supply System with system on chip control for Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (NIM-A), vol. 963, pp. 163763, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2020.163763
- Rachevski, K.S. Mannatunga et al., “The XAFS Fluorescence Detector System based on 64 Silicon Drift Detectors for the SESAME Synchrotron Light Source”, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (NIM-A), vol. 936, pp. 719-721, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2018.09.130
- Humberto, K.S. Mannatunga et al., “Trace detection and photothermal spectral characterization by a tuneable thermal lens spectrometer with white-light excitation”, Talanta, vol. 183, pp. 158-163, 2018. DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2018.02.073
- Abayaratne, A. Wickramarathna, D. Rodrigo, and K.S. Mannatunga, “A low-cost partially automated polarimeter for investigating skylight polarisation,” J. Natl. Sci. Found. Sri Lanka, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 95, Mar. 2016.
- Conference Proceedings
- S. Mannatunga et al., A Hardware/Software Architecture for Remote Control of SoC-FPGA Based Reconfigurable Virtual Instrumentation, the 2nd International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering (ICAEESE2019), India, Nov. 2019.
- S. Mannatunga et al., Design for Portability of Reconfigurable Virtual Instrumentation, the X Southern Programmable Logic Conference (SPL2019), Argentina, pp. 45–52, Apr. 2019.
- Bufon, K.S. Mannatunga et al., Large solid angle and high detection efficiency multi-element silicon drift detectors (SDD) for synchrotron based x-ray spectroscopy, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 2054, no. 1, pp. 060061, Jan. 2019.
- G.G. Ordóñez, K.S. Mannatunga et al., DAQ platform based on SoC-FPGA for high resolution time stamping in cosmic ray detection, the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Madison, WI, U.S.A, Jul. 2019.
- S. Mannatunga et al., Preliminary characterization at different energies of a new monolithic 8-channel Silicon Drift Detector for SESAME, the 24th International Congress on X-ray Optics and Microanalisys (ICXOM24), Trieste, Italy, Sep. 2017
- S. Mannatunga and M.D.R. Perera, Performance Evaluation of Division Algorithms in FPGA, the 9th International Research Conference, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka, 2016.
- Cicuttin, M.L. Crespo, K.S. Mannatunga et al., HiCCE-128: An Open Hardware FMC Module for High-Channel Count Electrophysiology, the International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering (ICAEESE2016), Malaysia, pp. 11-16, Nov. 2016.
- Cicuttin, M.L. Crespo, K.S. Mannatunga et al., A Programmable System-on-Chip Based Digital Pulse Processing for High Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy, the International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering (ICAEESE2016), Malaysia, pp. 520-525, Nov. 2016.
- Cicuttin, M.L. Crespo, K.S. Mannatunga et al., HyperFPGA: A possible general purpose reconfigurable hardware for custom supercomputing, the International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering (ICAEES2016), Malaysia, pp. 21-26, Nov. 2016.