Dr. Jeevani W. Jayasinghe joined the Department of Electronics of Wayamba University of Sri Lanka in 2008 and has been serving as a Professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering since 2019. Previously, she worked in the industry for more than 2 years as an Engineer.
She obtained PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Peradeniya with a Research Fellowship at Ramon Llull University, Barcelona, Spain. She served as a Visiting Fellow at Macquarie University, NSW, Australia, a Senior Scientist at Côte d’Azur University, France, and a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.
Dr. Jayasinghe is a pioneer in the establishment of the Faculty of Technology and served as the Founding Head of the Departments of Engineering Technology and Construction Technology. Currently, she is the Head of the Department of Electronics. She served as a resource person or a presenter at conferences and seminar at universities and institutions in India, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, and Nepal for academic or research activities.
She was the Secretary of IEEE Sri Lanka Section in 2019 and the Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Sri Lanka Section in 2018.

• Electrical and Electronic Engineering

• Designing broadband, multiband, miniature, and high-directivity antennas and arrays.
• Optimization of antenna designs by applying Genetic Algorithm.
• Applying nature-inspired optimization techniques.
• Modeling and forecasting renewable energy generation.

• Rathnayake, N., Yadev, M., Jayasinghe, J., Rathnayake, U., Minamide, M., & Hoshino, Y. (2026). Beyond wind speed: Integrating oceanic indices and time-lagged features for superior wind energy prediction. PLOS ONE, 21(3).
• Rathnayake, N., Jayasinghe, J., Semasinghe, R., & Rathnayake, U. (2025). Predicting short-term wind power generation at Musalpetti Wind Farm: Model development and analysis. Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, 142, 2287–2305.
• Shanmuganathan, S., Kanagasabai, M., Mohammed, G. N. A., Yeragudipati, R. R., Ramadoss, S., Jayasinghe, J. W., & Uduwawala, D. N. (2022). Miniaturized wideband 5G millimeter-wave antenna with two-port positioning analysis for vehicular communication. Applied Physics A, 128(9), 1–8.
• Sowjanya, D., Mohammed, G. N. A., Savarimuthu, K., Kanagasabai, M., Yeragudipati, V. R. R., Jayasinghe, J. W., & Uduwawala, D. N. (2022). An optically transparent circularly polarized ultrahigh-frequency radio frequency identification reader antenna. International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer‐Aided Engineering.
• Dejen, A., Ridwan, M., Jayasinghe, J., & Anguera, J. (2022). Multi-band mm-wave wearable antenna synthesized with a genetic algorithm. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
• Ekanayake, P., Panahatipola, O., & Jayasinghe, J. (2022). Development of wind energy prediction models using statistical, machine learning and hybrid techniques: A case study. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 50(2), 503–517.
• Ekanayake, P., Wickramasinghe, L., Jayasinghe, J. M., & Rathnayake, U. (2021). Regression-based prediction of power generation at Samanalawewa Hydropower Plant in Sri Lanka using machine learning. Mathematical Problems in Engineering.
• Ekanayake, P., Peiris, A. T., Jayasinghe, J. M., & Rathnayake, U. (2021). Development of wind power prediction models for Pawan Danavi Wind Farm in Sri Lanka. Mathematical Problems in Engineering.
• Ekanayake, P., Rankothge, W., Weliwatta, R., & Jayasinghe, J. W. (2021). Machine learning modelling of the relationship between weather and paddy yield in Sri Lanka. Journal of Mathematics.
• Wickramasinghe, L., Weliwatta, R., Ekanayake, P., & Jayasinghe, J. (2021). Modeling the relationship between rice yield and climate variables using statistical and machine learning techniques. Journal of Mathematics.
• Anguera, J., Andújar, A., Jayasinghe, J., Chakravarthy, V. V. S. S., Chowdary, P. S. R., Pijoan, J. L., Ali, T., & Cattani, C. (2020). Fractal antennas: An historical perspective. Fractal and Fractional, 4(1).
• Amaratunga, V., Wickramasinghe, L., Perera, A., Jayasinghe, J., & Rathnayake, U. (2020). Artificial neural network to estimate the paddy yield prediction using climatic data. Mathematical Problems in Engineering.
• Anguera, J., Andújar, A., & Jayasinghe, J. (2020). High-directivity microstrip patch antennas based on TModd-0 modes. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 19(1).
• Jayasinghe, J., Saraereh, O., Khokle, R., & Esselle, K. (2019). Design and analysis of m-segment fractal boundary antennas. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 61(9), 2119–2125.
• Jayasinghe, J., Andújar, A., & Anguera, J. (2019). On the properties of Sierpinski gasket fractal microstrip antennas. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 61(3), 772–776.
• Anguera, J., Andújar, A., Benavente, S., & Jayasinghe, J. (2017). High-directivity microstrip antenna inspired in Mandelbrot’s fractal. IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, 12(4), 569–575.
• Jayasinghe, J. W., Anguera, J., Uduwawala, D. N., & Andújar, A. (2017). A multipurpose genetically engineered microstrip patch antenna: Bandwidth, gain, and polarization. Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 59(4), 941–949.
• Jayasinghe, J. M. J. W., Anguera, J., & Uduwawala, D. N. (2015). Increasing the directivity of a microstrip patch array by genetic optimization. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 43(1), 83–89.
• Jayasinghe, J. M. J. W., & Uduwawala, D. N. (2015). A novel multiband miniature planar inverted F antenna design for Bluetooth and WLAN applications. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
• Jayasinghe, J. M. J. W., Anguera, J., Uduwawala, D. N., & Andújar, A. (2015). Nonuniform overlapping method in designing microstrip patch antennas using genetic algorithm optimization. International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
• Jayasinghe, J. M. J. W., Anguera, J., & Uduwawala, D. N. (2013). Genetic algorithm optimization of a high-directivity microstrip patch antenna having a rectangular profile. Radioengineering, 22(3), 700–707.
• Jayasinghe, J. M. J. W., & Uduwawala, D. N. (2013). Optimization of the performance of patch antennas using genetic algorithms. Journal of the National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka, 41(2), 115–122.

• Senior Member, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), USA.
• Associate Member, IESL (Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka).

International/ National Level

• Best paper of International Women in Engineering Symposium 2021
• CVCD Excellence award 2020- Most outstanding Young Researcher in Sri Lanka in the fields of Technology / Engineering/Architecture/ Quantity Surveying / Information Technology.

University Level

• Certificate of Merit- Most outstanding Senior Researcher Award – 2022, WUSL
• Certificate of Recognition- Most outstanding Senior Researcher Award – 2022, Faculty of Applied Sciences/ WUSL
• Certificate of Recognition – Honours for research – 2022, WUSL
• Certificate of Merit- Most outstanding Senior Researcher Award – 2021 WUSL
• Certificate of Recognition – Honours for research – 2021, WUSL
• Certificate of Recognition – Honours for research – 2020, WUSL
• Certificate of Merit- Most outstanding Senior Researcher Award – 2020, WUSL
• Certificate of Recognition- Most outstanding Young Researcher Award – Faculty of Applied Sciences/ WUSL: 2019
• Certificate of Merit- Most outstanding Young Researcher Award- 2019, WUSL
• Certificate of Recognition – Honours for research – 2017 to 2019, WUSL
• Commendation Certificate – Most outstanding Young Researcher -2017, WUSL

• Co-Investigator- Wayamba University Research Grant 2025
• Principal Investigator- Competitive Research Grant of the National Science Foundation 2025
• Principal Investigator- Research with Humanity Microgrant: Collaborative Research with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Saudi Arabia 2025
• Principal Investigator- Indo Sri Lanka Joint Research Program 2019
• Principal Investigator- Wayamba University Research Grant 2024
• Co-Investigator- Wayamba University Research Grant 2019

• Anna University, Chennai, India, 2026.
• Anna University, Chennai, India, 2017.
• Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, India, 2017.
• S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India, 2016.

PhD

• Optimization of Millimeter Wave Microstrip Antenna for Wireless Application Using Genetic Algorithm (2024), Arebu Dejen, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
• Ground Plane Optimisation of Wireless Devices Embedding Antenna Booster Technology, W.M.S.M Wickramasinghe, Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (ongoing).

MPhil

• Design And Development of a Novel, Passive UHF RFID Dual Mode Tag and Sensor Device with On-Chip Antenna (2024), W.M.S.M Wickramasinghe, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.
• Data-Driven Predictive Modelling of Wetland Water Level in Colombo Area Relevant to Flooding, L.C.D. Wickramasinghe, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka (ongoing).