Ajmal A Azees

Talented Engineer with focus on marrying multiple disciplines to produce cutting-edge products. Leverages data analytics and advanced knowledge of field to continuously optimize and innovate designs. Highly technical and focused on problem-solving.

• Lisbon Council for Peace, Tolerance, Innovation & Science - Official representative of Sri Lanka
• Assistant Secretary, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) Sri Lanka Section
• Associate member, Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL) - (AM - 24523)
• Associate member, Engineering Council of Sri Lanka (ECSL) - (215066)
• Sri Lankan Inventor - (7542 9456 1600 0037)
• Member - IEEE (94146803)
• Student Member - IET (1100577158)
• Secretary - Biomedical Engineering RMIT Students Society (BERSS), 2022-2023.

• PhD thesis title: “Developing next generation of neural stimulation devices"




• B.Sc Thesis Title: “Non-Invasive Screening tool to Detect Anemia” - ‘HemoX'




• Non-invasive cardiovascular health monitoring device - ‘JENDO'. JENDO can identify abnormalities in the cardiovascular system and predict the risk of heart disease. Carried out during the internship at Effective solutions Pvt Ltd, Sri Lanka




• Diabetes footwear. A footwear which takes the pressure and thermal inputs from feet and uses a machine learning algorithm to decide whether the user has a risk of a foot ulcer or not.




• Continuous monitoring wearable device for elderly people. Developed a continuous activity monitoring system for the older people. I proposed and co-supervised this final-year project.




• Multi-functional safety device for women - ‘Angel'. It is a wearable safety device for women.




• Design and development of a user-friendly smart home automation system and universal hardware device. Developed a smart home automation system where users just have to plug the required device to be controlled and can be controlled by smartphones through Wi-Fi




• Designed Smart server room monitoring and controlling system. Designed a system to monitor and control the environmental parameters of a server room through a smart phone.

• Prof. Field Rickards Award for the best PhD student of the year - Nominated for 2021 and 2022
• Visualize Your Thesis Competition 2023, RMIT - Winner
• Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) - People's Choice Award Winner (RMIT)
• IEEE EMBS International Student Conference 2022, Australia - Best Poster Award
• Best Overall 3rd Year Student of the Faculty of Engineering in Academic Year 2017/2018.
• Vice Chancellor's List, Best Student in Academic and Extra Curricular Activities of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna throughout the course
• Best Overall 4th Year Student of the Faculty of Engineering in Academic Year 2018/2019
• Innovation Week IWA 2020, Morocco - Virustop Contest Grand Prize
• Innovation Week IWA 2020, Morocco - Gold medal
• Innovation Week IWA 2020, Morocco - Outstanding International Achievement
• International Invention Fair in the Middle East 2019, Kuwait - Gold medal
• Jacob Start-up Competition (Jacob University, Germany) - Finalist
• Sri Lanka International Invention Exhibition and Competition (SIIEC) 2019 - First place/ Gold medal
• EUROINVENT, European Exhibition of Creativity and Innovation, Romania - Gold medal
• iCAN, International Invention and Innovation Competition, Canada - Gold medal
• iCAN, International Invention and Innovation Competition, Canada - Canadian Special Award
• Inventions Vs Corona Contest, Turkey, organized by IFIA - 2 Silver medals
• International Science and Invention Fair (ISIF) - Silver medal
• Sahasak Nimawum Invention and Innovation Competition 2017- 2nd Place (University Category)
• IEEE SS12 Asia Competition (Pilot) - Runners up
• Best student award for excelling in Research and Development of the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering
• “Dasis award” for best of the best inventions in all fields - Nominated Eng. E W Karunarathna Award - 2018/2019 - Nominated for the best undergraduate research project award by the IESL from all the universities in Sri Lanka.
• Mathematics quiz competition, Department of mathematics, Faculty of Engineering, UOP - Winner.
• RIIE 2017 Invention and Innovation Competition - Merit award RIIE 2017 Invention and Innovation Competition - 3rd place
• Green Energy Champion 2017(German ministry of foreign affairs with Sri Lanka Ministry of Power & Renewable Energy - Participation

• Harlod Mitchell Travel Scholarship to attend the IEEE EMBC 2023 conference
• Mcmanamy Family Student Travel Scholarship to attend the Photonics West Conference, USA
• CIAP Student Travel Aid to attend the Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses, USA

• “Spread of activation and interaction between channels with multi-channel optogenetic stimulation in the mouse cochlea”- Ajmal Azees , Alex Thompson, Ross Thomas, Jenny Zhou, Elise Ajay, David Garrett, Anita Quigley, James Fallon, Rachael Richardson

Published in the Journal of Hearing Research, Elsevier, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heares.2023.108911.

• “Optogenetic and Electrical Stimulation: Comparison of Spread of Activation and Interaction between Channels in the Mouse Cochlea”- Ajmal Azees , Alex Thompson, Ross Thomas, Jenny Zhou, Elise Ajay, David Garrett, Anita Quigley, James Fallon, Rachael Richardson

Presented an abstract at the Annual Optogenetics Australia meeting 2023.

• “Spread of Activation and Interaction between Channels during Acoustic, Electrical and Optogenetic Stimulation in the Mouse Cochlea”- Ajmal Azees , Alex Thompson, Ross Thomas, Jenny Zhou, Elise Ajay, David Garrett, Anita Quigley, James Fallon, Rachael Richardson

Presented an abstract at the Australasian Auditory Neuroscience Workshop 2022.

• “Multichannel hybrid neural stimulation device for precise neural stimulation in the cochlea”- Ajmal Azees , Alex Thompson, Ross Thomas, Jenny Zhou, Jason Marroquin, Elise Ajay, David Garrett, Anita Quigley, James Fallon, Rachael Richardson

Presented an abstract at the Aikenhead Centre for Medical Discovery Conference.

• “Non-Invasive Screening Tool to Detect Anemia”- A.A. Ajmal , S. Shankarnath and M.R.M. Athif

Published a conference paper at the IEEE EMB Special Topic Conference on Healthcare Innovations and Point of Care Technologies, National Institute of Health (NIH), Boston, USA.

• “Development of the Relationship between Hemoglobin Concentration and PPG Signal Characteristics”- A.A. Ajmal , S.Shankarnath and M.R.M. Athif. Published a conference paper at the IEEE International Conference on Information and Intelligent Systems 2019, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
• “Tactile Discrimination of Fabrics Using Machine Learning Techniques”- Abdul Attayyab Khan, A. A. Ajmal , Tahir Rasheed and M. Hassan Tanveer

Published a conference paper at IEEE International Conference on Engineering Technologies and Social Sciences 2017, AIT University, Bangkok, Thailand.

• “Analysis of Optimal Sensor Positioning on the Body for Activity Recognition Applications”- Chamalka W.H, Priyanga H.G, Vidyawansha C.J, A.A. Ajmal , Jayathunga E.H

Published a conference paper at the IEEE EMBS International student conference

• Inter-school football tournament - District champion
• Inter-faculty football tournament 2015 and 2018 - Champion
• Fresher's Inter faculty football tournament 2015 - Champion
• Inter-faculty football tournament 2017 - 2nd Runners up
• Inter-school general knowledge competition 2010(English) - 1st Place
• Inter-school general knowledge competition 2010(Sinhala) - 1st Place