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Prabath Wijethilaka
Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
Summary
I am Prabath Wijethilaka, a Final Year undergraduate student in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, skilled in digital electronics and communications.
Interest Areas
Education
BSc (Hons) Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
2022 - PresentUniversity of Moratuwa
CGPA: 3.69/4.0
- CGPA: 3.69/4.0
- Dean's List: Semester 2, 6
- Focus: FPGA Design, Hardware Acceleration, Computer Architecture
GCE Advanced Level Examinations
2012 - 2020Dharmaraja College - Kandy
- Stream: Physical Science
- Z score: 2.5258
- District Rank: 13
- Island Rank: 134
Experience
Hardware Accelerated Systems Engineer - Internship
Dec 2024 - June 2025London Stock Exchange Group
Contributing to the verification of high-performance FPGA-based networking systems
- Developed a UVM-driven Ethernet packet capture and replay tool capable of injecting .pcap files to reliably reproduce real production failures
- Migrated the full testbench architecture from nanosecond to femtosecond precision, resolving critical timing alignment issues in the TCP Offload Engine pipeline
- Explored Linux kernel driver operation for configuring the Xilinx Alveo U50 data-center FPGA
- Integrated Model Checking principles into the verification methodology to strengthen functional correctness and coverage
Awards & Honors
1st Runners-Up | DVCon India 2025 – International Design Contest
September 2025DVCon India 2025
SLMs on Edge – A lightweight FPGA-based systolic array accelerator and bare-metal inference engine designed to run the full Qwen3 pipeline on the VEGA AT1051 RISC-V SoC.
- Awarded 1st Runners-up at the DVCon India 2025 Design Contest organized by CDAC Trivandrum
- Designed a custom accelerator for the VEGA AT1051 SoC
- Built a framework capable of running the full Qwen3 inference pipeline on bare metal
- Demonstrated strong hardware–software co-design skills while competing against top university and industry teams
Championship | SLIoT Challenge 2023 - All island IoT competition
2023SLIoT Challenge 2023
Hydrolink - A Complete IoT Device Revolutionizing Water Tank Management
- Secured first place at the SLIoT Challenge 2023
- Earned a grant from the World Bank to manufacture a pilot batch
- Developed a complete IoT solution from concept to deployment
- Launched official website: www.hydrolink.lk
Championship | IEEE Sri Lanka Circuit Challenge 2024
2024IEEE Sri Lanka
Steer Safe by PulseX - A wearable device that utilizes machine learning and Electrooculography (EOG) signals to track a driver state of awareness in real-time.
- Championship at IEEE Sri Lanka Circuit Challenge 2024
- Developed wearable EOG-based drowsiness detection system
- Integrated machine learning for real-time driver monitoring
1st Runners-Up | Brainstorm 2024 - Healthcare innovation competition
2024Brainstorm 2024
Steer Safe - A wearable device that utilizes machine learning and Electrooculography (EOG) signals to track a driver state of awareness in real-time
- 1st Runners-up at Brainstorm 2024
- Healthcare innovation focused on driver safety
- EOG-based attention monitoring system
Stage 2 (Top 20) | DVCon India 2024 - International Design Contest
2024DVCon India 2024
GateMasters - Design and implement a hardware accelerator for a Vision Transformer-based malware detection system on a VEGA Processor.
- Reached Stage 2 (Top 20) in international competition
- Designed hardware accelerator for ViT-based malware detection
- Competed with team GateMasters
Finalist | HackX 2024 - Inter University Startup Challenge
2024HackX 2024
Hydrolink - A Complete IoT Device Revolutionizing Water Tank Management.
- Finalist in inter-university startup challenge
- Pitched Hydrolink IoT solution to investors
- Demonstrated business viability and market potential
Sri Lanka University Games Championship 2023
2023Sri Lanka University Games (SLUG)
Championship title at the Sri Lanka University Games 2023.
- Sri Lanka University Games Championship 2023
- University Baseball Team - University of Moratuwa
Dean's List
University of Moratuwa
Academic excellence recognition
- Semester 2
- Semester 6
Recommendations
"Prabath demonstrated outstanding self-learning skills, quickly adapting to our existing codebase with minimal intervention and significantly improved the test bench running time. I highly recommend Prabath to any organization. He would be an invaluable asset to any forward-thinking organization"
— Nuwantha Silva
Assoc. Tech Lead (FPGA), London Stock Exchange Group
View full recommendation on LinkedInConferences & Workshops
DVCon India 2025 – Design and Verification Conference
Runners-up – Design Contest
September 10-11, 2025
Radisson Blu, Marathahalli, Bangalore
LEAD CS 8.0 – Leadership Development Program
Participant
March 2022
Hotel Ramrich, Ja-Ela
Technical Skills
Languages
Developer Tools
Frameworks
Databases & Cloud
Soft Skills
Certifications
Function Acceleration on FPGA with Vitis
Udemy
Linux Device Drivers
LinkedIn Learning
High-Performance and Mission-Critical Software Development Using C++
London Stock Exchange Group
Introduction to FPGA Design for Embedded Systems
University of Colorado Boulder - Coursera
FPGA Softcore Processors and IP Acquisition
University of Colorado Boulder - Coursera
Hardware Description Languages for FPGA Design
University of Colorado Boulder - Coursera
Machine Learning Specialization
Deeplearning.AI - Coursera
AAT Level 3 Completed
Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka
Diploma in English
Esoft Metro Campus - Sri Lanka
Diploma in IT
Esoft Metro Campus - Sri Lanka
Extra-Curricular & Volunteering
Judge Board – HackElite 2.0
IEEE Sri Lanka Women in Engineering – University of Moratuwa
2025
Conduct Knowledge Session: Advanced Biomedical Electronics & Computational Technologies
IEEE EMBS Student Branch Chapter – University of Moratuwa
2025
Conduct Knowledge Session: Raspberry Pi Web Services
Pi Mora, SPARK Branch - University of Moratuwa
2025
Head of Marketing
Electronic Club - University of Moratuwa
Aug 2025 - Present
Marketing Coordinator
Electronic Club - University of Moratuwa
Sep 2024 - Aug 2025
Social Media Sub-Coordinator
Electronic Club - University of Moratuwa
Aug 2023 - Sep 2024
Department Batch Representative
Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering - University of Moratuwa
Jan 2024 - May 2025
Finance Committee member
IEEE Society University of Moratuwa - project "Mora Foresight 1.0"
Mar 2023 - Aug 2023
Event Sub-Committee member
EXMO - University of Moratuwa
July 2023 - Aug 2023
Finance Committee member
AIESEC Society University of Moratuwa - project "Rooted 1.0"
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Junior Prefect
Dharmaraja Collage - Kandy
Jan 2015 - Dec 2015
President of Collage Hosteler's Society
Dharmaraja Collage - Kandy
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Volunteering in Sasnaka Sansada
Teaching experience with Volunteering in "Ganitha Saviya" Project
2021 - 2022
Sports & Activities
Sri Lanka University Games Championship 2023
University Baseball Team - University of Moratuwa
Participated STRIDIAN'23
Mora Hiking Club - University of Moratuwa
Captain of the college under 17 volleyball team
Dharmaraja College - Kandy
Obtained a 'Merit' for Hockey on Annual "Colors Nite"
Dharmaraja College - Kandy
Member of the college Baseball, and Hockey team
Dharmaraja College - Kandy
References
Ajith A. Pasqual
B.Sc. Eng. (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka), M.Eng. (Tokyo), Ph.D. (Tokyo), MIEEE, MACM
Senior Lecturer
Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering
University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
Nuwantha Silva
B.Sc. Eng. (Moratuwa, Sri Lanka)
Assoc. Tech Lead
London Stock Exchange Group