Awards, Fellowships & Grants

Awards

     
    • 2021
      University of Colombo Senate Award for Research Excellence (Awarded in recognition of excellence in research in the year 2019) Certificate of Commendation

         
        • 2021
          University of Colombo Senate Award for Research Excellence (Awarded in recognition of excellence in research in the year 2018)

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            • 2020
              Faculty of Science (University of Colombo) Award for Research Excellence in 2018

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                • 2020
                  Faculty of Science (University of Colombo) Award for Academic Outreach in 2018

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                    • 2019
                      University of Colombo the Vice Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence (Awarded in recognition of excellence in research in the year 2018)

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                        • 2019
                          University of Colombo SenateAward for Research Excellence (Awarded in recognition of excellence in research in the year 2017)

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                            • 2019
                              University of Colombo Senate Award for Research Excellence (Awarded in recognition of excellence in research in the year 2016) Certificate of Commendation

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                                • 2019
                                  NRC Merit Award for Scientific/Research Publications (in 2017)

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                                    • 2018
                                      NRC Merit Award for Scientific/Research Publications (in 2016)

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                                        • 2018
                                          Best paper award (Paper title: Dynamics of two strain dengue transmission with hypothetical vaccination strategies) at the International Conference on Science and Technology (ICST-2018) organized by the School of Engineering, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India)

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                                            • 2017
                                              NSF SUSRED Award (in recognition of the supervision of the PhD titled Developing and validating a mathematical model to quantify air quality in Colombo)

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                                                • 2017
                                                  NSF SUSRED Award (in recognition of the supervision of the PhD titled Developing a mathematical model to study dengue epidemics and controllability of transmission of dengue)

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                                                    • 2010
                                                      NRC Merit Award for Scientific/Research Publications

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                                                        • 2009
                                                          Postgraduate Research Award (Merit), SLAAS

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                                                            • 2006-2011
                                                              Junior Associate (in recognition of multidisciplinary research activity) of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy)

                                                            Fellowships

                                                               
                                                              • 2016
                                                                DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) short term Fellowship for research visit (Department of Mathematics, University of Kasierslautern, Germany, December 01-23, 2016
                                                                   
                                                                  • 2011
                                                                    ERASMUS MUNDUS MAHEVA Fellowship (Collaborative research program, August 1-30, 2011, Department of Electronics, Uppsala University, Sweden.
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                                                                      • 2005-2008
                                                                        DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship (Germany)
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                                                                          • 2002-2004
                                                                            ICTP/UNESCO Fellowship

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                                                                              • 2017
                                                                                University of Colombo Travel Grant
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                                                                                  • 2016
                                                                                    DAAD Conference attending Travel Grant

                                                                                    • Grants

                                                                                       
                                                                                      • NSF RPHS Grant
                                                                                        National Science Foundation Research Program on Health Science (RPHS/2016/D05), Rs. 15 million, June 2017 - June 2020: Project Title: Proactive Dengue Management System (ProDMS) - Principle Investigator.

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                                                                                          • University of Colombo Grant
                                                                                            University of Colombo Competitive Research Grant of Rs. 2,280,000.00, October 2015- October 2019: Project Title: Mathematical Modeling for dynamics of dengue virus-A system approach - Principle Investigator.

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                                                                                              • University of Colombo Grant
                                                                                                University of Colombo Competitive Research Grant of Rs. 2,005,000.00, April 2013-April 2016: Project Title: Developing a mathematical model to study the risk level of the dengue epidemics and the controllability of dengue - Principle Investigator - Completed.

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                                                                                                  • HETC QIG PG Grant
                                                                                                    HETC QIG Postgraduate Grant, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo Rs. 30 million, member of proposal writing team and Activity Coordinator of Activity V: Strengthen the Mathematical Modeling, under this 2 PhD’s supervised completed by me and set up the Research & Development Centre for Mathematical Modeling-Completed.

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                                                                                                      • University of Colombo Grant
                                                                                                        University of Colombo Competitive Research Grant of Rs. 1,176,000.00, April 2013-April 2016: Project Title: Development of a mathematical model for risk assessment of species during deliberate introduction to Sri Lanka - Co Investigator - Completed.

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                                                                                                          • NSF Grant
                                                                                                            NSF Research Grant of Rs. 829,000.00, Forecasting growth and yield performance of Sri Lanka grown Sesame / Thala (Sesamumindicum L.) and its wild relatives to water deficit conditions. A Mathematical Modeling Approach - Co Investigator - Completed.

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                                                                                                              • DAAD South Network
                                                                                                                DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service): South Network: Modeling & Analysis in Industry and Finance, Postgraduate strengthen Grant of Euro 59,710 ( Approximately 11 million rupees), joint grant (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, Institute of Technology, Bandung, Indonesia, Kathmandu University, Nepal) - Team Leader, University of Colombo - Completed.

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                                                                                                                  • DAAD Conference Grant
                                                                                                                    DAAD Conference organizing grant of Euro 11,483 (Approximately 1.9 million rupees) for International Conference on Computational Modeling and Simulation - 2017 which was organized be the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo.

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                                                                                                                      • NSF Conference Grant
                                                                                                                        NSF Conference grant of 2.0 million rupees for International Conference on Computational Modeling and Simulation - 2017 which was organized be the Faculty of Science, University of Colombo.