Dush Nalin Jayakody

Prof. Dush Nalin  Jayakody, Ph. D. (Dublin),  IEEE Senior Member, IET Fellow, Marie Curie Fellow

Professor, COFAC, Portugal

Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology, Sri Lanka

Researcher - Center of Technology and Systems - University of New Lisbon, Portugal 

COPELABS/CIET

nalin.jayakody AT ieee.org or jayakody2005 AT gmail.com

**I currently have open RA positions on body area networks, pls contact me. **

• 01/2026: Fully funded PhD/RA positions available in the area of Wireless Body Area Network/ Quantum Communications. 

• I am pleased to be listed in the database of top 2% cited researchers (in the fields of Communications, Networking and Artificial Intelligence), Elsevier and Stanford University  list of 2021-2025. 

• Presidential Award for Scientific Publications "2023" & ''2025''

• National Research Council Merit Award x 2, 2025.  

• Track Chair VTC 2024 Fall -- 100th Anniversary. 

• I am pleased to be listed in the database of top 2% cited researchers (in the fields of Communications, Networking and Artificial Intelligence), Elsevier and Stanford University  list of  Oct 2023. 

• Keynote : Green Network Slicing in UAV Networks, IEEE ICONSEPT 2023, India, June 2023. 

• Invited Talk: Invited Talk, IEEE FUTURE 6G SYSTEMS AND BEYOND, 31 Mai 2023, UAL Lisbon, Portugal.

• Invited Keynote: "AGE AWARE GREEN UAV WIRELESS NETWORKS" International Conference on Intelligent Systems and New Applications  (ICISNA'23), April 28-30, 2023, Liverpool, UK.  

• Invited Key Note: Workshop on Emerging Techniques in 6G Wireless Communications, "UAV-assisted Advanced Wireless Networks" SRM Institute of Science & Technology, India, Jan 2023. 

• I am pleased to be listed in the database of top 2% cited researchers (in the fields of Communications, Networking and Artificial Intelligence), Elsevier and Stanford University Oct 2022.

• Tutorial Talk "UAV Based Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer", 6G Wireless Workshop, Padukka, Sri Lanka, Oct 14-15 2022.

• Keynote Speech "Art on Scientific Research" , International Webinar, Jigme Namgyel Engineering, Royal University of Bhutan, 15th Oct 2022. 

• Best Paper Award V. Basnayake, Ambrish Kumar, D. N. Jayakody, "Optimization of Secure Emergency Call Services in Asynchronous-NOMA D2D Network", IRC 2022, September 2022. 

• Keynote Speech on  "Age of Information for Future Wireless", 25th International Conference on Distributed Computer and Communication Networks: Control, Computation, Communications (DCCN), 26-30 September 2022.

• Workshop Co- Chair "Next Generation Multiple Access", The 17th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications August 9-11, 2022, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

• Feb 2022, "6G Next Generation Multiple Access; NOMA?", Invited talk, university of Jyväskylä, Finland. 

• Jan 2022: "Research Methodologies  in Telecommunication", invited talk, Autonomous University of Lisbon. 

• 2021: Elevated to Fellow Member grade,  IET

• I am pleased to be listed in the database of top 2% cited researchers (in the fields of Communications, Networking and Artificial Intelligence), Elsevier and Stanford University Oct 2021.

•  I served as the General Chair at IEEE ICIAfS  2021, link.

• 2021: Presidential Research Award for the "Best Researcher 2021"

• 2021: Presidential Research Award for the "Highest Impact Factor Publications 2021".

• 2020: Appointed Associate Editor: IET Networks

• 2020: IEEE Best Readings "R. Khan, P. Kumar, D. N. K. Jayakody and M. Liyanage, "A Survey on Security and Privacy of 5G Technologies: Potential Solutions, Recent Advancements, and Future Directions," in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2020"

• 2019: One of my books, “5G Enabled Secure Wireless Networks,” is included in the 2019-IEEE Comsoc Information Security Technical Committee's report (ICC’19). 

•  2017: Best paper award at ICCMIT 2017, Poland

•  2017: Best paper award at ETIC  2019, Bhutan

•  Advisory Board ,  MDPI Journal on SCI Scopus (Elsevier) and WoS indexed, 2020

•  Editor, Wiley Internet Technology Letters.  Ei Compendex, Scopus (Elsevier), Emerging Sources, Citation Index (ESCI), 2019. 

•  Editor, Physical Communications, 2017. 

•  I served as the General Chair at ETIC 2019, link.

•  Elevated to IEEE Senior Membership 2018

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