Objective:

To work in a challenging research environment which offers professional development and growth potential and to further build up my professional experience for the advancement of my career.

Experience:

Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, December 1997

Position: Lecturer

Oct 1997 July 1999: Conducted lectures and prepared question papers on Electronic Measurements to Third Year Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering students. Conducted Laboratory Classes on Analog Electronics for Third Year Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering students.

Engaged in research activities with the collaboration of the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and Road Development and Construction Company, Sri Lanka to develop a coordinated traffic control system for Sri Lanka. This system was implemented in Colombo city and suburbs. Major work was to link traffic signal controllers in isolated intersections using voice grade telephone links, to develop methodologies to control and monitor the system from a remote control and monitoring center and to synchronize based on time of day.

My contribution to the above research was:

• Developing the communication interface of the UNIROAD traffic controller developed by the University of Moratuwa.
• Developing the system firmware of the system:
  • To handle data communication functions
  • To decode and to execute the control and monitoring instructions
  • For time based synchronization
  • For error detecting and logging
• Formulating and implementing the protocol for the communication with and control of the traffic signal controllers in multi-processor architectures.
• To develop PC based control and monitoring software for the system

July 1999 April 2000: Continued the above research on full time basis. In addition to the activities mentioned above, for the completion of my thesis, I developed a genetic algorithm based synchronized traffic signal plan calculator. Major components of the system are:

• Genetic Algorithm based traffic plan optimizer
• An elementary road traffic simulator for a given network of signalized intersections
• GUI for data entry and for formulating the road network model

May 2003 to Feb 2004: Academic Visitor to the Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University. Research is Stereoscopic Video Coding.

June 2004 to date: Post Doctoral Research Associate, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Brunel University. Research in Communicational Video Transmission over Cellular Mobile Applications.

Education:

B.Sc. (Eng.) in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Second Class (Upper Division) Honors, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Class average was 68.17. GPA was 3.76.

Performances:
First Examination in Engineering

	Mathematics	A
	Engineering Drawing	A
	Physics	A
	Engineering Chemistry	A
	Introduction to Computer Science	A
	Workshop Technology	C
	English	Pass

Final Examination in Engineering Part I

	Mathematics	A
	Mechanics and Thermodynamics	A
	Theory of Electricity	A
	Electrical Measurements	B
	Basic Electronics	A
	Fluid Mechanics and Strength of Materials	A
	Physical and Opto Electronics	B

Final Examination in Engineering Part II

	Mathematics	A
	Industrial Economics and Management	A
	Electronic Measurements and Control Systems	A
	Communication Theory	B
	Digital Electronics	B
	Power Systems and Electrical Machines	A
	Electromagnetics	C
	Analog Electronics	B
	Wiring Diagram (Coursework)	Pass

Final Examination in Engineering Part III

	Electronic Systems	A
	Communication Theory II	B
	Communication Theory I	B
	Computer Systems	B
	Industrial Economics and Management II	B
	Communication Systems II	A
	Power Electronics and Applications	C

M. Phil in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. The thesis topic was Genetic Algorithm Based Control Techniques for Adaptive Coordinated Traffic Signal Controllers in a Multiprocessor Architecture.

D.Eng. in Telecommunication Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Cumulative GPA is 3.94 out of 4.

Performances:

	Special Study: Evolutionary Computation	A
	Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence	A
	Client/Server Distributed Systems	A
	Special Study: Data Mining	B
	Object-Oriented Analysis and Design	B
	Selected Topic: Communication-Network and Service Architecture	A
	Special Study: Rate Control Techniques in Video Coding	A
	Error Control Coding	A

Professional Trainings

• Underwent industrial training at MyOwn Electronic Engineers and Sri Lanka Telecom for a period of three months.
• Attended a short course on Traffic Engineering Designs for Signal Controlled Intersections organized by Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

1. H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando, "H.264/AVC IN MOBILE ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW," SPIE Optical Engineering Journal, accepted, 2005
2. H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando, "A Modified Block Matching Algorithm for Error Concealment in Conversational Video Communications", Proceedings of WIRELESS PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC'05), Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2005.
3. H. Kodikara Arachchi, E.A. Edirisinghe, W.A.C. Fernando, "Novel Scanning Order for Improving the Bit Rate Performance of ZTE Video Coding", Proceedings of WIRELESS PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC'05), Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2005.
4. A.B.B. Adikari, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi, K.K. Loo, "A H.264 COMPLIANT STEREOSCOPIC VIDEO CODEC", Proceedings of WIRELESS PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC'05), Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2005.
5. S. Adedoyin, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi, T. Kalganova, "An Efficient Motion Estimation Algorithm for H.264 Based Conversational Video Codecs", Proceedings of WIRELESS PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC'05), Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2005.
6. L. Zhang, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi, K.K. Loo, "PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF H.264 CODEC IN THE W-CDMA WIRELESS ENVIRONMENTS", Proceedings of WIRELESS PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC'05), Aalborg, Denmark, September, 2005.
7. H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando, "PSO Based Bit Rate Optimization for MPEG-1/2 Video Coding", Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'05), Genova, Italy, September 2005.
8. S. Adedoyin, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi, T. Kalganova and K.K. Loo, "An Evolutionary Strategy Based Motion Estimation Algorithm for H.264 Video Codec," Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2005.
9. A.B.B. Adikari, W.A.C. Fernando, H. Kodikara Arachchi and K.K. Loo, "H.264 Compliant Stereoscopic Video Coded," Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2005.
10. P.Y. Yip, J.A. Malcolm, W.A.C. Fernando, K.K. Loo and H. Kodikara Arachchi, "Joint Source and Channel Coding for H.264 Compliant Stereoscopic Video Transmission," Proceedings of Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, May 2005.
11. H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando "GA Based Bit Rate Optimization for MPEG-1/2 Video Coding", WIRELESS PERSONAL MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS (WPMC2004), Abano Terme, Italy, 12-15 September 2004.
12. H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando, "Improving the Mpeg-1/2 Video Quality at Scene Transitions", 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, May 2003.
13. H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando, "An Intelligent Rate Control Algorithm to Improve the Video Quality at Scene Transitions for off-line MPEG-1/2 Encoders", IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, Feb. 2003.
14. H. Kodikara Arachchi, W.A.C. Fernando, "Bit Rate Control Schemes in MPEG Video Compression", Proceedings of IEEE ISCIT-2002 conference, October 2002.
15. H. Kodikara Arachchi and W.A.C. Fernando, "Effect of Dissolve Transitions in Rate Control of MPEG-1/2 Video", Proceedings of 56th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Vancouver, Canada , September 2002.
16. H. Kodikara Arachchi and W.A.C. Fernando, "Intelligent Video Coding for MPEG-1/2, Video", Proceedings of IEEE ITC-CSCC-2002 Conference, Phuket, Thailand, July 2002.
17. H. Kodikara Arachchi, J.A.K.S. Jayasinghe, "Adaptive Traffic Signal Controller for Coordinated Traffic Control Systems in a Multi-processor Architecture", Fifth Annual Symposium of the Engineering Research Unit, University of Moratuwa, 1999.

Research Interests:

Video Coding, Error Resilience, Error Concealment, Network Adaptive Video Coding, Stereoscopic/Lenticular Video Coding, Evolutionary Algorithms, Distributed Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Web Programming

Computer Skills

• Operating Systems: UNIX, LINUX, MS-DOS, Windows 95, 98, 2000 and XP
• Languages: C, C++, Visual C++, Java, Pascal, GWBASIC, Assembly Languages, SQL, HTML, PHP, Perl, Java Scripts
• Mathematical Tools: MATLAB
• Other: RPC, MFC, GALib, SOM, MySQL Server

Honours:

1993 - Received a Mahapola Higher Education Scholarship (Merit Award) for the four-year undergraduate program. This scholarship was awarded on the basis of the results of the G.C.E. (Advanced Level) examination.

2000 - Received ADB scholarship to pursue studies towards doctoral degree.

2005 - Awarded a grant by the Royal Academy of Engineering to attend international conference.

Membership in Professional Societies:

• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)

University of Moratuwa

Dept. of Electronic and Telecom. Eng., University of Moratuwa

Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa

Asian Institute of Technology(AIT)

Telecommunication Program, AIT

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Sri Lanka Telecom

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