Advanced Quantum Mechanics - Density Functional Theory
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
Engineering Mechanics
Mechanics of Materials
Fluid Mechanics
Strength of Materials Laboratory
Introduction to Programming
Python Programming for Engineering Technology
Fundamental Practices in Technology
Sustainable Technology Systems
Scientific Communication
Assessment and Evaluation Methods in Education
Research Topics
Computational Materials Design
Design of Interatomic Potentials for Classical Molecular Dynamics
Molecular Dynamics investigations of structural and thermal properties of materials
Density Functional Theory (DFT) investigations of electronic and magnetic properties of materials.
Ab-initio investigations of adsorption mechanism of heavy metals in biochar.
Investigation of Adsorption of heavy metals by titanium dioxide surfaces using DFT.
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) risk prediction using non-invasive biomarkers and machine learning algorithms (Funded by ADB STHRD).
Identifying groundwater sources with minimum risk for CKDU in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka (collaborative project with the University of Texas at Dallas).
Identify the problem-solving issues among ordinary-level students in chemical calculations. (collaborative masters project with University of Colombo)
Designing a conceptual framework for authentic teaching to facilitate effective learning in secondary schools in Sri Lanka. (collaborative project with the University of Colombo)
Professional Contributions
Head, Department of Applied Computing (January 2022 - Current date)
Coordinator, Staff Development Unit, Faculty of Computing and Technology, (June 2023 - Current date)
Director, Center for Excellence in Technology Education (CETE), (December 2023 - Current Date)
Director, Research Center of FCT (June 2021 - June 2023)
Academic Advisor, Bachelor of Engineering Technology (June 2018 - June 2022)
Coordinator, Bachelor of Bio-systems Technology Degree (June 2021 - June 2022)
Manjaree, B, Liyanage, L S I, Rupasinghe, T P, Tillekaratne, A, Silva, K M N de, Model for Integration of Technology in Authentic Education-An interpretation of a literature Review, International Conference on Advances in Computing and Technology (ICATC), 2021, Faculty of Computing and Technology (FCT), University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
Veremyev, A, Liyanage, L, Fornari, M, et al. Networks of materials: Construction and structural analysis. AIChE J. 2021; 67:e17051. doi: 10.1002/aic.17051
Liyanage, Laalitha S. I., S lawi´nska, J., Gopal, P., Curtarolo, S., Fornari, M., (2020), ”High-Throughput Computational Search for Half-Metallic Oxides”,Molecules 2020 25 (9), 2010, doi: 10.3390/molecules25092010
Veremyev, A, Liyanage, L, Fornari, M, et al. Networks of materials: Construction and structural analysis. AIChE J. 2020;e17051. doi: 10.1002/aic.17051
Toher C. et al. (2018) The AFLOW Fleet for Materials Discovery. In: Andreoni W., Yip S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Modeling. Springer, Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-42913-7 63-1
Liyanage, L.S.I., Kim, S.-G., Houze, J., Kim, S., Tschopp, M.A., Baskes, M.I. and Horstemeyer, M.F. (2018). From Electrons to Atoms: Designing an Interatomic Potential for Fe–C Alloys. Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) for Metals, M.F. Horstemeyer (Ed.) doi: 10.1002/9781119018377.ch2
Nardelli, Marco Buongiorno, Frank T. Cerasoli, Marcio Costa, Stefano Curtarolo, Riccardo De Gennaro, Marco Fornari, Laalitha Liyanage, Andrew R. Supka, and Haihang Wang. ”PAOFLOW: A utility to construct and operate on ab initio Hamiltonians from the projections of electronic wavefunctions on atomic orbital bases, including characterization of topological materials.” Computational Materials Science 143 (2018): 462-472. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.11.034
Supka, Andrew R., Troy E. Lyons, Laalitha Liyanage, Pino D’Amico, Rabih Al Rahal Al Orabi, Sharad Mahatara, Priya Gopal et al. ”AFLOWπ: A minimalist approach to high-throughput ab initio calculations including the generation of tight-binding hamiltonians.” Computational Materials Science 136 (2017): 76-84. doi: 10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.03.055
Gopal, Priya and Fornari, Marco and Curtarolo, Stefano and Agapito, Luis A. and Liyanage, Laalitha S.I. and Nardelli, Marco Buongiorno “Improved predictions of the physical properties of Zn-and Cd- based wide band-gap semiconductors: A validation of the ACBN0 functional”, Phys. Rev. B 91, 245202 (2015) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.245202
Dixit, Vivek and Nandadasa, Chandani N. and Kim, Seong-Gon and Kim, Sungho and Park, Jihoon and Hong, Yang-Ki and Liyanage, Laalitha S. I. and Moitra, Amitava, “Site occupancy and magnetic properties of Al-substituted M-type strontium hexaferrite”, J. Appl. Phys. 117, 243904 (2015) doi: 10.1063/1.4922867
Liyanage, Laalitha S. I. and Kim, Seong-Gon and Houze, Jeff and Kim, Sungho and Tschopp, Mark A. and Baskes, M. I. and Horstemeyer, M. F.“Structural, elastic, and thermal properties of cementite (Fe3C) calculated using a modified embedded atom method.”, Phys. Rev. B 89, 094102 (2014) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.89.094102
Jihoon Park, Yang-Ki Hong, Seong-Gon Kim, Sungho Kim, Laalitha S.I. Liyanage, Jaejin Lee, Woncheol Lee, Gavin S. Abo, Kang-Heon Hur, Sung-Yong An, Maximum energy product at elevated temperatures for hexagonal strontium ferrite (SrFe12O19) magnet”, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 355, pp1–6 (2014) doi: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2013.11.032
Liyanage, Laalitha S. I.; Kim, Sungho; Hong, Yang-Ki; Park, Ji-Hoon;Erwin, Steven; Kim, Seong-Gon, “Theory of magnetic enhancement in strontium hexaferrite through Zn–Sn pair substitution,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 348, pp75–81 (2013) doi: 10.1016/j.jmmm.2013.08.006
Kim, Seong-Gon; Horstemeyer, M. F.; Baskes, M. I.; Rais-Rohani, Masoud; Kim, Sungho; Jelinek, B.; Houze, J.; Moitra, Amitava; Liyanage, Laalitha “Semi-Empirical Potential Methods for Atomistic Simulations of Metals and Their Construction Procedures,” J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 131, 041210 (2009), doi: 10.1115/1.3183784
Liyanage, L. S. (2012). Investigation of structure-property relationships in materials using Ab-initio and Semi-empirical methods. PhD thesis, Mississippi State University.
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