{"id":309,"date":"2015-09-30T08:19:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T08:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2020-08-23T02:30:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T02:30:02","slug":"mr-k-s-mannatunga","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/mr-k-s-mannatunga\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. K. S. Manatunga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/06\/4582.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-113\" src=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2015\/06\/4582.jpg\" alt=\"4582\" width=\"186\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lecturer<br \/>\n<strong>Email<\/strong>: ksm@sjp.ac.lk<br \/>\n<strong>Office TP<\/strong>: 0112758363<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research interests<\/strong>: Embedded System Designing, FPGA \u2013 Development, Medical Instrumentation, Nuclear Instrumentation, Signal Processing<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Undergraduate Teaching<\/strong>:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PHY 124 2.0 Electricity and Magnetism<\/li>\n<li>PHY 121 2.0 Geometrical Optics and Waves &amp; Vibrations<\/li>\n<li>PHY 125 2.0 Practical (Elementary)<\/li>\n<li>PHY 331 1.0 Introduction to Computer Hardware<\/li>\n<li>EES 128 1.0 Circuit Simulations and Design Lab<\/li>\n<li>EES 201 1.0 Sensors and Actuators<\/li>\n<li>EES 206 2.0 Advanced Analog and Digital Electronics (Digital Section)<\/li>\n<li>EES 208 1.0 Data Acquisition and Signal Processing Lab<\/li>\n<li>EES 303 1.0 Embedded Systems Development Lab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Workshops\/Seminars<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lecturer and Laboratory Tutor of the \u201cSchool and conference on Fully-Programmable Systems-On-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation\u201d, held at the Gauhati University, India, from 2 to9 November 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Laboratory Tutor of the \u201cAdvanced Workshop on Modern FPGA-based Technology for Scientific Computing\u201d, held at ICTP, Italy, from 13 to 24 May 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Lecturer and Laboratory Tutor of the \u201cAdvanced Workshop on FPGA-based Systems-On-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation and Reconfigurable Computing\u201d, held at ICTP, Italy, from 26 November to 7 December 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Laboratory Tutor of the \u201cAdvanced School on Programmable System-on-Chip for Scientific Instrumentation\u201d, held at ICTP, Italy, from 20 November to 1 December 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Laboratory Tutor of the \u201cSchool on Zynq-7000 SoC and its Applications for Nuclear and Related Instrumentation\u201d, held at ICTP, Italy, from 21 August to 15 September 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Lecturer and Laboratory Tutor of the \u201cRegional Workshop and Conference on Advanced Reconfigurable Instrumentation for Scientific Applications\u201d, held at the University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia, from 14 to 25 November 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Laboratory Tutor of the \u201cAsian Regional School on FPGA Design for Scientific Instrumentation\u201d, held at the Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro, Pakistan, from 7 to 18 December 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>EDUCATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Master of Science in Applied Electronics, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thesis Title: Field Programmable Gate Array based data processing for robot control.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bachelor of Science (Special) degree in Physics with First Class Honors, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>OCCUPATION<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2015 \u2013 to date, Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<li>2011 \u2013 2015, Probationary Lecturer, Department of Physics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Fellowships and Positions<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>OFID\/STEP Fellowship at ICTP, MLAB, Italy; from 2016 till 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Associate Researcher at INFN, Italy; from 2016 till 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Book Chapters<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>D.R. Perera, K.S. Mannatunga, R.A.D.D. Darmasiri, R.G.N. Meegama, and M.K. Jayananda, &#8220;Implementation of a Smart Sensor Node for Wireless Sensor Network Applications using FPGAs&#8221;, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technologies for High Performance Instrumentation. IGI Global, 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Refereed Journals<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, \u201cHigh Performance 128-Channel Acquisition System for Electrophysiological Signals\u201d, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 122366-122383, 2020. DOI: 10.1109\/ACCESS.2020.3007082<\/li>\n<li>Carrato, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, \u201cA scalable High Voltage Power Supply System with system on chip control for Micro Pattern Gaseous Detectors\u201d, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (NIM-A), vol. 963, pp. 163763, 2020. DOI: 10.1016\/j.nima.2020.163763<\/li>\n<li>Rachevski, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, \u201cThe XAFS Fluorescence Detector System based on 64 Silicon Drift Detectors for the SESAME Synchrotron Light Source\u201d, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A (NIM-A), vol. 936, pp. 719-721, 2018. DOI: 10.1016\/j.nima.2018.09.130<\/li>\n<li>Humberto, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, \u201cTrace detection and photothermal spectral characterization by a tuneable thermal lens spectrometer with white-light excitation\u201d, Talanta, vol. 183, pp. 158-163, 2018. DOI: 10.1016\/j.talanta.2018.02.073<\/li>\n<li>Abayaratne, A. Wickramarathna, D. Rodrigo, and K.S. Mannatunga, \u201cA low-cost partially automated polarimeter for investigating skylight polarisation,\u201d J. Natl. Sci. Found. Sri Lanka, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 95, Mar. 2016.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff9900\">Conference Proceedings<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, 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.<\/li>\n<li>S. Mannatunga <em>et al.,<\/em> Design for Portability of Reconfigurable Virtual Instrumentation, the X Southern Programmable Logic Conference (SPL2019), Argentina, pp. 45\u201352, Apr. 2019.<\/li>\n<li>Bufon, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, 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.<\/li>\n<li>G.G. Ord\u00f3\u00f1ez, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, 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.<\/li>\n<li>S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, 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<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Cicuttin, M.L. Crespo, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, 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.<\/li>\n<li>Cicuttin, M.L. Crespo, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, 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.<\/li>\n<li>Cicuttin, M.L. Crespo, K.S. Mannatunga <em>et al.<\/em>, 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecturer Email: ksm@sjp.ac.lk Office TP: 0112758363 Research interests: Embedded System Designing, FPGA \u2013 Development, Medical Instrumentation, Nuclear Instrumentation, Signal Processing Undergraduate Teaching: PHY 124 2.0 Electricity and Magnetism PHY 121 2.0 Geometrical Optics and Waves &amp; Vibrations PHY 125 2.0 Practical (Elementary) PHY 331 1.0 Introduction to Computer Hardware EES 128 1.0 Circuit Simulations and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/phy\/mr-k-s-mannatunga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mr. K. S. 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