Dr Randika Kosala Wathavana Vithanage

Lecturer

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

Randika received his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Immediately after his graduation, he joined Toshiba Corporation in Singapore as an industrial and manufacturing engineer. At Toshiba, he held multiple key roles across their manufacturing department and received the “Employee of the Year” award in appreciation of his work. To broaden his horizons, he commenced his PhD in the United Kingdom and successfully defended the thesis titled “Industrial Robotics for Rolling-stock Maintenance”. Since then, he joined the team at the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering (CUE) at the University of Strathclyde as a postdoctoral researcher and promoted to be a Knowledge Exchange Fellow and subsequently to Lecturer in Robotics. At the moment, he contributes to multiple projects mainly funded by EPSRC, InnovateUK and BEIS. Randika investigates novel techniques to perform robotically delivered in-process inspection of high-value components in aerospace, nuclear, defence and energy sectors. Randika has published several high impact research articles and delivered multiple international presentations. He is a registered Chartered Engineer (CEng) at Engineering Council, United Kingdom and a member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). Randika also a received Fellowship of Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Expertise

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Prize And Awards

The BINDT Annual Conference Award: Recipient; 5/9/2019
Presentation Award - RCNDE ESR 2019: Recipient; 10/7/2019

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Publications

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Publications

Intelligent operator-independent flexibility in robotic non-destructive evaluation: Hifi Amine, Vithanage Randika KW, McKnight Shaun, Tunukovic Vedran, Nicolson Ewan, Gomes Rylan, Poole Alastair, Mohseni Ehsan, Pierce S Gareth, MacLeod Charles, O'Hare Tom, Munro Gavin; Advanced Intelligent Systems (2026)
Assessment of out-of-plane ply waviness in carbon-fibre reinforced plastics : comparing different non-destructive evaluation modalities: Gomes Rylan CVV, Mohseni Ehsan, Tunukovic Vedran, Maes Vincent, Contino Matteo, Pierce S Gareth, Burnham Kenneth, Vithanage Randika KW, MacLeod Charles N, Munro Gavin, O'Hare Tom; NDT and E International (2026); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2026.103630
A step towards ultrasonic guided wave monitoring for resin infusion front position estimation in composites manufacturing: Calistru Cristian A, Mohseni Ehsan, Tunukovic Vedran, Pierce S Gareth, Lines David, MacLeod Charles N, Vithanage Randika KW, Bomphray Iain, Weis Tobias, Munro Gavin, O'Hare Tom; NDT and E International Vol 159 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2025.103620
Human-machine collaborative automation strategies for ultrasonic phased array data analysis of carbon fibre reinforced plastics: Tunukovic Vedran, McKnight Shaun, Hifi Amine, Mohseni Ehsan, Pierce S Gareth, Vithanage Randika KW, Dobie Gordon, MacLeod Charles N, Cochran Sandy, O’Hare Tom; NDT and E International Vol 154 (2025); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ndteint.2025.103392
ROS enabled non-destructive testing for aerospace manufacturing: Shields Matthew, Wathavana Vithanage Randika Kosala, Pierce Gareth, Munro Gavin, O'Hare Tom, Grosser Michael, O'Brien-O'Reilly Janet; ROS Con UK 2025 (2025)
Process-to-part phased array inspection of a large scale composite aerospace specimen: Shields Matthew, Wathavana Vithanage Randika Kosala, Pierce Gareth, Munro Gavin, O'Hare Tom, Grosser Michael, O'Brien-O'Reilly Janet; 62nd Annual British Conference on NDT (2025)

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Research

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Professional Activities

University West Sweden: Host; 30/10/2025
BAE Systems: Host; 24/10/2025
IHI Corporation: Host; 20/10/2025
National Manufacturing Institute Scotland: Visiting researcher; 6/10/2025
Spirit AeroSystems MFG R&T: Host; 25/9/2025
Stäubli UK Ltd: Host; 23/9/2025

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Projects

UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Kwasnik, Maksymilian: Mohseni, Ehsan (Principal Investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Co-investigator) Kwasnik, Maksymilian (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2029
Fusing A Future From Glasgow's Proud Heritage - The Next Wave (Innovation project commission Glasgow City Region - Extension): MacLeod, Charles Norman (Principal Investigator) Dobie, Gordon (Co-investigator) Gachagan, Anthony (Co-investigator) Javadi, Yashar (Co-investigator) Mohseni, Ehsan (Co-investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Stratoudaki, Theodosia (Co-investigator) Ward, Michael (Co-investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Co-investigator) Lines, David (Research Co-investigator) Loukas, Charalampos (Research Co-investigator) Munro, William (Research Co-investigator) Nicolson, Ewan (Research Co-investigator) Watson, Robert (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Allan, Ethan: Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Principal Investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Allan, Ethan (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
RCNDE Feasibility Study Call 2024 Hybrid Robotics for Process-to-Part-Inspection (P2P): Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Principal Investigator); 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2026
EPSRC 2018 ICase for A Poole | Nabi pour, Seyedmohammadamin: Pierce, Gareth (Principal Investigator) Mohseni, Ehsan (Co-investigator) Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Co-investigator) Nabi pour, Seyedmohammadamin (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2027
DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Moos, Rebecca Faith: Wathavana Vithanage, Randika Kosala (Principal Investigator) Pierce, Gareth (Co-investigator) Moos, Rebecca Faith (Research Co-investigator); 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2027