{"id":2624,"date":"2022-11-24T14:47:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/?post_type=iit-news&p=2624"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:48:21","slug":"iit-wins-gold-gold-and-gold-at-nbqsa-2022","status":"publish","type":"iit-news","link":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/iit-news\/iit-wins-gold-gold-and-gold-at-nbqsa-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"IIT wins Gold, Gold and Gold at\u00a0NBQSA\u00a02022"},"content":{"rendered":"

IIT congratulates all our students who made us proud with Golds in all 3 categories; Business, Technology and Postgraduate and to the students who received merits on their projects.<\/p>\n

We extend our wishes to the IIT student entrepreneurs with their startup company for securing Gold and to Suresh Peiris for receiving the award for “\ud835\udddc\ud835\uddd6\ud835\udde7 \ud835\udde6\ud835\ude01\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddf1\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude01 \ud835\uddd8\ud835\uddfb\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude02\ud835\uddff \ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddf3 \ud835\ude01\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddf2 \ud835\uddec\ud835\uddf2\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddff”.<\/p>\n

All Gold Award recipients are nominated to\u00a0#APICTA<\/a>\u00a02022 to be held in Islamabad, Pakistan on 7th December 2022. IIT wishes them all best in their quest to take Sri Lankan talents to greater heights in the international area.<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfc6\"<\/span>\u00a0Gold Award – \u201cTertiary Business\u201d category
\nTehara Perera, a BSc (Hons) Business Information Systems student wins Gold
\nProject – “Airplate -A Platform to Reduce International Catering Waste in Airlines Through Data, Insight and Action”
\nSupervisor – Ms Abarnah Kirupananda<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfc6\"<\/span>\u00a0Gold Award – “Tertiary Technology” category
\nThayalan Praveen, Hamdaan Mohideen and Kanishka Hewageegana, students from the BSc (Hons) Artificial Intelligence and Data Science degree win Gold
\nProject -“Planet Hunters”
\nSupervisor – Mr Torin Wirasingha<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfc6\"<\/span>\u00a0Gold Award – “Tertiary Postgraduate” category
\nKrishnakripa Jayakumar, a MSc Cyber Security and Forensics student wins Gold
\nProject -“XAIVIER – An Interpretable Forensic Deepfake Detection Toolkit”
\nSupervisor – Dr. Nimalaprakasan Skandhakumar<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfc6\"<\/span>\u00a0Gold Award – Inforwaves Private Limited \u201cMedia and Entertainment in Consumer Category\u201d
\nSuresh Peiris (Founder), Kushan Bhareti (VP Services), Dinuka Piyadigama (VP Innovations) of Inforwaves (Pvt) Ltd who were nominated while being students of BEng (Hons) Software Engineering and BSc (Hons) Computer Science at IIT win Gold<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udf96\ufe0f\"<\/span>\u00a0ICT Student\u00a0#Entrepreneur<\/a>\u00a0of the Year – Suresh Peiris, Founder of Inforwaves (Pvt) Ltd won this award for founding and growing his startup while he was a student of BEng (Hons) Software Engineering at IIT<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfc5\"<\/span>\u00a0Merit Award – “Tertiary Business” category
\nThanushi Ganegoda Haputhanthri a BSc (Hons) Business Information Systems student received a merit award
\nProject \u2013 Project Revive
\nSupervisor – Ms Kumudini Sarathchandra<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfc5\"<\/span>Merit Award – “Tertiary Technology” category
\nVayangi Vishmi Vishara Ganepola a BEng (Hons) Software Engineering student received a merit award
\nProject – iSegmentor
\nSupervisor – Mr Torin Wirasingha<\/p>\n

\"\ud83c\udfc5\"<\/span>Merit Award – ” Tertiary Technology” category
\nK. T. Yasas Mahima a BEng (Hons) Software Engineering student received a Merit award
\nProject – A General Defense Framework for Defending against Adversarial Attacks and Physical World Adversaries
\nSupervisor – Mr Guhanathan Poravi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2625,"template":"","iit_faculty_type":[9,4,8,7,5,6],"other_types":[],"class_list":["post-2624","iit-news","type-iit-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","iit_faculty_type-computer-learning-centre","iit_faculty_type-business-school","iit_faculty_type-transfer-options","iit_faculty_type-professional-development-unit","iit_faculty_type-school-of-computing","iit_faculty_type-postgraduate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/api\/wp\/v2\/iit-news\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/api\/wp\/v2\/iit-news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/iit-news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"iit_faculty_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/api\/wp\/v2\/iit_faculty_type?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"other_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iit.ac.lk\/api\/wp\/v2\/other_types?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}