Dr Sathsara Abeysinghe
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
- abeysingheam@cardiff.ac.uk
- E/2.20, Queen's Buildings - Central Building, 5 The Parade, Newport Road, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Overview
Dr Sathsara Abeysinghe is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at Cardiff University. Her research interests include statistical assessment of energy distribution networks, analysing the grid impact of low carbon technologies, flexibility provision from decentralized resources and operation improvement of local multi-vector energy systems.
She received her B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Peradeniya-Sri Lanka in 2014, and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cardiff University, U.K. in 2018. Since 2018 she is working as a post-doctoral research associate at the Centre for Integrated Renewable Energy Generation and Supply at Cardiff University. She was a visiting scholar at Tianjin University in China and conducted statistical analysis on a large amount of electricity distribution network data. She also spent a secondment at Toshiba TRL in Bristol, and during that time she employed machine learning techniques in her research.
She is the Principal Investigator of the research project titled, ‘A decision tool for real-time operation of public sector multi-energy systems’, funded by the EPSRC through the National Center for Energy System Integration (CESI).
Publications
2021
- Abeysinghe Herath Mudiyanselage, S. M., Abdelrahman, M. A., Wickins, C., Wu, J. and Jenkins, N. 2021. Use of distributed generation to control reactive power at the transmission distribution interface. Presented at: IEEE PES ISGT Europe 2021, Virtual, 18-21 October 20212021 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT Europe). IEEE, (10.1109/ISGTEurope52324.2021.9640219)
- Abeysinghe, S., Abeysekera, M., Wu, J. and Sooriyabandara, M. 2021. Electrical properties of medium voltage electricity distribution networks. CSEE Journal of Power and Energy Systems 7(3), pp. 497-509. (10.17775/CSEEJPES.2020.01640)
2020
- Almeida, D., Abeysinghe Herath Mudiyanselage, S. M., Ekanayake, M. P., Godaliyadda, R. I., Ekanayake, J. and Pasupuleti, J. 2020. Generalized approach to assess and characterise the impact of solar PV on LV networks. International Journal of Electrical Power and Energy Systems 121, article number: 106058. (10.1016/j.ijepes.2020.106058)
2019
- Thomas, L. J., Canet, A. and Abeysinghe Herath Mudiyanselage, S. M. 2019. Use of prediction based meter reputation factors in power systems. Presented at: PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe), Bucharest, Romania, 29 Sep - 2 Oct 2019PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Europe (ISGT-Europe). IEEE, (10.1109/ISGTEurope.2019.8905750)
2018
- Abeysinghe Herath Mudiyanselage, S. M., Wu, J., Sooriyabandara, M., Abeysekera, M., Xu, T. and Wang, C. 2018. Topological properties of medium voltage electricity distribution networks. Applied Energy 210, pp. 1101-1112. (10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.06.113)
- Abeysinghe, S. 2018. A statistical assessment tool for electricity distribution networks. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2017
- Abeysinghe Herath Mudiyanselage, S. M., Wu, J. and Sooriyabandara, M. 2017. A statistical assessment tool for electricity distribution networks. Energy Procedia 105, pp. 2595-2600. (10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.747)
2015
- Abeysinghe Herath Mudiyanselage, S. M., Nistor, S., Wu, J. and Sooriyabandara, M. 2015. Impact of electrolysis on the connection of distributed generation. Energy Procedia 75, pp. 1159-1164. (10.1016/j.egypro.2015.07.547)
Teaching
- Teaching (1st year undergraduate course on Digital Electronics, Autumn 2019).
- Teaching assistant (3rd year and MSc modules on Energy studies and Renewable Energy Technologies, 2018-2021)
- Lab demonstration of protection relays (2018) and IPSA simulation software (2018-2019)
Projects as Researcher
Engaged in JUICE, FLEXIS, ENCORE+ EPSRC funded research projects and MAGNITUDE European project. Currently engaged in the CESI, EnergyRev and Supergen EPSRC funded research projects.
Projects as Investigator
Principal Investigator of the research project titled, ‘A decision tool for real-time operation of public sector multi-energy systems’, funded by the EPSRC through the National Center for Energy System Integration (CESI), 2020 (£68k).
Researcher Co-investigator of a Feasibility Study funded by EPSRC, through The Engineering Complexity Resilience Network+ (ENCORE+), titled ‘Generating random-realistic topologies for electricity distribution networks, 2017 (£10k)
