BSc (Moratuwa), MSc (Ireland), MSc (Netherlands), PhD (Italy)

Biomedical Signal Processing

Biomechanics, Bioinformatics

Prosthetic Design and Automation

Neural Engineering

Biomedical Signal Processing

Biomechanics

1. AS Warnakulasuriya, SD Karunarathna, and PPCR Karunasekara (2018) Braille Blood Pressure Reader for Home Blood Pressure Measurement for Visually Challenged Individuals. Proceedings, KDU IRC 2018.
2. Dayawansa, I., Wijenayake, C. Edussooriya, C., Samarasekara, T., Karunasekara, C., Dias, D., Samarasinghe, K., Kulasekere, C., Rodrigo, R., Dayananda, N. (2018) Blended induction program for electronic engineering freshmen, International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education. (published online ahead of print 16 May). Available at: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0020720918775034 (Accessed 12 July 2018).
3. Onken A., Liu J.K., Karunasekara P.P.C.R., Delis I., Gollisch T., Panzeri S. (2016) Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for the Single-Trial Analysis of Population Spike Trains, PLoS Comput Biol., 12(11): e1005189. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005189.
4. Onken, A., Karunasekara, P.P.C.R, Kayser, C., Panzeri, S. (2014) Understanding Neural Population Coding: Information Theoretic Insights from the Auditory System, Advances in Neuroscience, 2014 (907851). doi:10.1155/2014/907851.
5. Karunasekara, P.P.C.R, Onken, A., Delis, I., Cavallari, S., Sakata, S., Panzeri, S. (2014, October 6 – 10) Using non-negative matrix factorization to study cortical spike trains: validation on network simulations and auditory responses Poster session presented at the 11^th International Workshop on Neural Coding, Paris, France.
6. Karunasekara, P.P.C.R., Delis, I., Sakata, S., Panzeri, S. (2014, June 25 – 29) Analysing a large neural population concurrently in space and time through non-negative matrix factorization Poster session presented at AREADNE 2014 Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, Santorini, Greece.
7. Karunasekara P.P.C.R., Dissanayake M. M., Nanayakkara N.D. (2009, December 28 – 31) An Interactive Cadaver Dissection Simulator, Paper presented at the International Conference on Industrial and Information Systems. doi: 10.1109/ICIINFS.2009.5429850.
8. Dissanayake S.D., Karunasekara P.P.C.R., Lakmanaarachchi D.D., Rathnayaka A.J.D., Samarasinghe A.T.L.K. (2008, December 12 – 14) Zigbee Wireless Vehicular Identification and Authentication System. Paper presented at the International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability. doi: 10.1109/ICIAFS.2008.4783998.

Marie Curie Early Researcher fellowship to complete PhD (2013 – 2015)               

Category A Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to complete MSc (2010 – 2012)

Lecturer – Contract-basis (2009 – 2010), Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.

Visiting Lecturer (2009 – 2010), Electromagnetic Fields and Networks, Part II of IESL Engineering Course, Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL)

Engineer – Network Systems (2007 – 2009), Mobitel (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka