Samitha Somathilaka

Journal Articles

• Somathilaka, S., Elayan, H., Atkinson, J., Jornet, J.M. and Balasubramaniam, S., "The Internet of Biofilm Living AI Devices". IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2025.
• Somathilaka, S., Balasubramaniam, S., Martins, D. P., “Analyzing Wet-Neuromorphic Computing Using Bacterial Gene Regulatory Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (Early access), March 2025.
• Perera J., Balasubramaniam S., Somathilaka S., Wen Q, Li X, Kasthurirathna D., Roohi A., Nelson TS., "Wet-Neuromorphic Computing: A New Paradigm for Biological Artificial Intelligence". IEEE Intelligent Systems (Early access), March 2025.
• Ratwatte, A., Somathilaka, S., Balasubramaniam, S., Gilad, A. A., “Non-Linear Classifiers for Wet-Neuromorphic Computing using Gene Regulatory Neural Network”, Biophysical Reports, vol. 4, no. 11, 2024.
• Ratwatte, A., Somathilaka, S., Balasubramaniam, S., Taggart, M., Nair, K.M., Niyato, D., O'Riordan, A. and Dooley, J., 2024. "Reconfigurability of Gene Regulatory Neural Network for Regulating Biofilm Formation". IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2024.
• Somathilaka, S., Balasubramaniam, S., Martins, D. P., Li, X., “Revealing Gene Regulation-Based Neural Network Computing in Bacteria”, Biophysical Reports, vol. 3, no. 3, September 2023.
• Balasubramaniam, S., Somathilaka, S., Sun, S., Ratwatte, A., Pierobon, M., “Realizing Molecular Machine Learning through Communications for Biological AI: Future Directions and Challenges”, IEEE Nanotechnology Magazine, vol. 17, no. 3, 2023.
• Somathilaka, S., Martins, D. P., Barton, W., O’Sullivan, O., Cotter, P.D., Balasubramaniam, S., “A Graph-based Molecular Communications Model Analysis of the Human Gut Bacteriome”, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 26, no.7, July 2022.

Conferences

• Somathilaka, Samitha, et al. "Wet tinyml: Chemical neural network using gene regulation and cell plasticity." Proceedings of TinyML Research Symposium, San Francisco, USA, April 2024.
• Somathilaka, S., Martins, D. P., Balasubramaniam, S., “Information Flow of Cascading Bacterial Molecular Communication Systems with Cooperative Amplification”, in Proc. of IEEE ICC, Seoul, South Korea, May 2022.

Under Review

• Clouse, J., Ramsey, T., Somathilaka, S., Kleinsasser, N., Ryu, S., and Balasubramaniam, S., "The Insect-Wing Structured Microfluidic System for Reservoir Computing". Authorea Preprints, 2025.
• Ratwatte, A., Somathilaka, S., Cao, T., Li, X., & Balasubramaniam, S. "The Bacterial Gene Regulatory Neural Network as a Biocomputing Library of Mathematical Solvers". Authorea Preprints, 2025.

Theses

• Somathilaka, S., "Exploring Molecular Communication and Gene Regulation-Based Biocomputing of Bacteria", (PhD Thesis) South East Technological University, 2024.
• Somathilaka, S., "Active Authentication for Mobile Platform Using Behavioral Patterns", (Master’s Thesis) Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, January 2017.

• "Advances in Unconventional Computing", Unconventional Computing Laboratory UWE, Bristol UK, 16-17 October 2025.
• "Wet-TinyML: A Compact Revolution in Engineering AI", MerCon Workshop, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 14 August 2025.
• "Introduction to Molecular Communication", University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka, 2022