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Education, research experience, engineering projects, and technical skills.

Contact Information

Name Ravindu Bandara
Professional Title Electrical & Electronic Engineer | Master's Researcher in Power Electronics

Professional Summary

Master’s researcher developing FPGA-based modulation and control for high-frequency wide-bandgap power conversion.

Education

  • 2025 - 2027

    Kyoto, Japan

    Master's degree
    Kyoto University of Advanced Science
    Power Electronics and Semiconductor Devices
    • Supervised by Prof. Alberto Castellazzi.
    • Research focus on FPGA-based modulation and control for high-frequency wide-bandgap power conversion.
  • Sri Lanka

    B.Sc. (Hons)
    NSBM Green University
    Electrical & Electronic Engineering
    • Undergraduate research on intrusion detection for IoT systems using edge and fog computing.

Research Experience

Publications

  • Accepted
    Versatile FPGA Modulation Platform for Modern High-Frequency WBG Power Conversion
    Conference details to be confirmed

    Accepted conference paper. Complete author list, venue, and date are intentionally pending verification.

Projects

  • FPGA-Based WBG Power Conversion Platform

    Reconfigurable Artix-7 control platform for synchronized gate signals, programmable timing, and experimental converter operation.

    • FPGA, AXI4-Lite, UART, PWM, dead-time control, GaN, SiC
  • IoT Intrusion Detection Using Edge/Fog Computing

    Undergraduate research combining ESP32 endpoints, Raspberry Pi and Linux-based traffic processing, CICFlowMeter, and machine-learning intrusion detection.

  • Autonomous Delivery Robot

    Robotics project involving RPLIDAR, Hector SLAM, RViz, autonomous navigation, and 5G concepts.

  • Shuttlecock Launcher

    Arduino-based embedded system using BLDC motors and PWM control.

Skills

Power Electronics: GaN and SiC devices, high-frequency power conversion, PWM and SPWM, dead-time control, switching characterization
FPGA and Embedded Systems: Xilinx Artix-7, Basys 3, digital logic, AXI4-Lite, UART, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, Arduino
Engineering Software: MATLAB/Simulink, Python, NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, Linux