Miss. Dilanka De Silva

Ms. Dilanka de Silva, CEng., MIE(SL), is a Lecturer Higher Grade in the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at Sri Lanka Technology Campus. She holds a First Class BSc (Hons) degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from University of Moratuwa along with a Master of Business Administration (Project Management Specialization) with a Merit pass from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK. She has 12 years of professional experience in the Sri Lankan telecommunication industry, with expertise in 3G and 4G LTE access network planning and Optimization. She has contributed to the industry in the capacity of Engineer, Senior Engineer, Manager and Senior Manager during the period. She is currently pursuing her PhD at University of Moratuwa, with her research focusing on Visible Light Communication (VLC), Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) and Physical Layer Security (PLS). She is currently actively engaged in teaching, curriculum development, academic leadership, research and industry engagement.

• Honours Degree of Bachelor of the Science of Engineering in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, First Class, 2007
• Master of Business Administration in Project Management, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK, Merit, 2016

Communication Systems and Architectures, Digital Communication, Tele-traffic Engineering

• High Speed Visible Light Communication (VLC)
• Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) and Physical Layer Security (PLS) in VLC

• D. de Silva, R. Weerasuriya, S. G. Edirisinghe, N. Dharmaweera and S. Gayan, "Enhancing Vlc Performance: an Experimental Study on System Parameter Tuning," TENCON 2025 - 2025 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, 2025, pp. 474-478, doi: 10.1109/TENCON66050.2025.11375124.
• Appuhamilage, A. D. D. T., Liu, G., Basnayaka, C. M. W., De Silva, D., & Teng, H. (2025). Investigating the Impact of Temperature and Humidity on SINR Variations in LTE Networks: A Field Study. European Journal of Applied Science, Engineering and Technology, 3(2), 100-116. https://doi.org/10.59324/ejaset.2025.3(2).09
• P. L. D. N. M. de Silva, S. G. Edirisinghe, and R. Weerasuriya, “Usage of Channel Coding Techniques for Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction in Visible Light Communications Systems,” in ICLFT 2022: 16. International Conference on Li-Fi Technology, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Aug. 2022.

• Intelligent Home Surveillance and Human Activity Monitoring System Using WiFi CSI, Multi-Camera  Fusion, and Edge AI
• Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation & Queuing Optimization in 5G Network Slicing
• Secrecy Performance Analysis of Encryption-Based VLC Systems
• Adaptive Multi-Qubit Quantum Semantic Communication System for Robust Image Transmission over error prone channels
• Development of AI based Ultra-Wideband  Indoor positioning system
• Smart V2V Safety Module for Road  Hazard Detection using Computer Vision and Li-Fi
• Performance Evaluation of an SDR-Based Wireless Communication System Using Adaptive Coding and Modulation (ACM) in  Slow-Fading Channels
• Dynamic traffic light control using multi-AI agentic system
• Study on the impact of channel encoding techniques to the reliability of camera-based underwater visible light communication for different water conditions
• A deep learning based system for medicinal plant leaves identification for health and wellness application
• Implement energy efficient wireless sensor network by using deep sleep mechanism with RF powered wakeup circuit

• CEng., MIE(SL) (No: M-8940), Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL), October 2021
• Short Course in ‘Making Teaching Effective’ (MaTE-2020) conducted by Centre of Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation (CETLI), SLTC, December 2020