The Speakers

Prof. Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Senior Member IEEE, Fellow, IET, received a Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering, from University College Dublin, Ireland. He received his MSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey (under the University full graduate scholarship). From 2014-2016, he was a Postdoc Research Fellow at University of Tartu, Estonia and University of Bergen, Norway. Since 2021, he has been employed at the Autonoma TechLab, Portugal and Sciences and Technologies Department (STD), Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal. From 2016 to date, he is a Professor at the School of Computer Science & Robotics, Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Russia. He also serves as the Head, School of Postgraduate Studies & Reserach, Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka. He has supervised 15 PhD students and many master and undergraduate students. He held visiting and/or sabbatical positions at the Centre for Telecommunications Research, University of Sydney, Australia in 2015 and Texas A&M University in 2018. In July 2019, Prof. Jayakody received the Education Leadership Award from the World Academic Congress in 2019. In 2017 and 2018, he received the outstanding faculty award by Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. He has published nearly 200 international peer reviewed journal and conference papers and books.

AMBRISH, received his Ph.D. degree in Wireless Communication from the department of Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE), University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, and M.Tech. degree in Optical & Wireless Communication Technologies from the department of ECE, Jaypee University of Information Technology (JUIT), Solan (H.P.), India. He was Sr. Scientific Officer in Technology Information Forecasting Assessment Council-Centre for Research and Excellence (TIFAC-CORE), at Delhi Technological University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering), New Delhi, India, and a Teaching-cum Research Fellow (TRF) in the department of ECE at Netaji Subhas University of Technology (Formerly Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT)), New Delhi, India and Lecturer in Amity School of Engineering & Technology (ASET) at Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India. He was a full-time Researcher in the Mobile Transmission Systems Laboratory within the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at Pukyong National University (PKNU), Busan, South Korea. Presently, he is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre of Research and Telecommunication (CRT), Sri Lanka Technological Campus (SLTC), Sri Lanka. Also, he is a Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK. His research interests are Physical Layer Security, Visible Light Communication, Underwater VLC, Ultraviolet Communication, Free-Space-Optics, and Cognitive Radio Networks.

Rear Admiral Wasantha Wiraj Leelarathna, USP, psc, joined Sri Lanka Navy on 14^th November 1989 and received the Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1993 from the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka. He completed the Specialization in Electrical and Electronics Engineering form INS Valsura, Jamnagar, India in 1995 and received the Master of Public Administration from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka in 2014. He is a Chartered Engineer and a fellow Member of the Institute of Engineers - India (IEI), an Associate member of Institution of Engineers - Sri Lanka (IESL) and Associate Engineer of Engineering Council - Sri Lanka (ECSL). Completing 31 years of distinguish naval service, he assumed the office of the Director General Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering of Sri Lanka Navy in November 2021. His current main research is in the area of Underwater Wireless Communication.