Events
Recent & Memory Lane
Final METIS Meeting, Aalto University, Helsinki 2015. METIS was the foundation EU project leading to 5G: 2012-2015
Levi Workshop, Finland with Gerhard Kramer. We both had same Supervisor at U. Manitoba. Prof. Ed Shwedyk
With Tapio Erke - AIT Telecom founder (in his retirement now), Helsinki. Was program coordinator when I started in May 1996.
with students I supervised, AIT, Telecom
With Prof. Ha in ICC 2014, Sydney
Deot. ENTC, UoM with Antti Tölli, we did a tutorial
Farewell from Telecom, AIT
People on Massive MIMO Turorial - METIS Project
With Hao Lin, Orange, METIS Meeting
With Pierre SIOHAN, METIS Meeting
With Antti Tölli, AIT Telecom
Prof. Worsak, President AIT, Prof. Kumar, VPAA, AIT on cooperation with CWC
Prof. Kithsiri Liyanage and Minister Harsha de Silva starting work on double degree program
AIT, Telecom
2001, Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) on my sabbatical now Aalto
With Dr. Shyam Chakraborty and Prof. Sven Gustav, HUT, 2001 during my sabbatical at Comm Lab led by Prof. Seppo Halme
With Prof. Ed Shwedyk with Mrs. Shwedyk (my Master and doctoral advisor, during ISIT'91 conference visit to Budapest) - road trip from Amsterdam to Budapest
Ha Nguyen, my first Master student AIT, 1997 - AIT Telecom Building, 2nd floor
Ottawa, 1998, VTC Conference, Ha Nguyen and Anil Fernando, then doctoral students at Manitoba and Bristol - my very first Master students at AIT
with Shwedyk's at their home 2017 during UoM visit
with Prof. Ha Nguyen, U. Saskatchewan, 2017
VTC Toronto 2017 Prof. Octavia Dobre, Dr. Peiying Zhu, Ottawa Huawei
VTC Toronto, 2017 - met Dhammika Jayalath (seated right) since Master at AIT in 1998
1st Double Dgree students at U. Peradeniya, 2018
Starting of Diploma Program with YTU, Yangon.
with Dr. Chathuranga Weeraddana, his office, U. Moratuwa
with AIT TC Alum, 2018 Globecom, Abu Dhabi
1998 AIT Telecom, my office, 2nd floor
Telecom Building, 1st floor
with Doan Ngoc, my Master student, 1998 now senior staff Eng, Qualcomm, SD
Telecom workshop, AIT auditorium sometime 1997
AIT sometime in 1999 with my Master students
Visit to UJSP, Sri Lanka, 2019
Independence day, AIT, 1998
Prof. Lajos Hanzo, during EUCNC 2017, Oulu
USJP Visit, Sri Lanka, 2019
with my Master students, AIT Auditorium, 2011
Doctoral graduation Shujat Ali Khan Tanoli, Prof. said Irandoust President, AIT, 2011
Nuwan Ferdidand and Amila Gamage, 2011, Iso-Syöte, Finland
CWC Christmas Part, 2010
Amila Gamage, Iso-Syöte, 2011
Iso-Syöte, 2011, Finland
Just after doctoral defence, Imran Khan, AIT Telecom Building, 2010
with my students, 2011, AIT Auditorium
Dr. Shujat Ali Khan Tanoli, 2011, AIT
with my students, 2011, AIT
Umesh Phuyal (AIT TC Alum), ICC 2011, Kyoto
VTC 2010, Toronto
Just after new building opening, Dept ENTC, UoM, 2003
CWC Chirstmas Party, 2012
AIT student welcome sometime 2008
Graduation 2010 - My last full time attendance at AIT
Doctoral defence Zuhaib Ashfaq Khan, 2014 (attending remote from Oulu)
Eakapong, CFO-WD and Poramate, True corporation Bangkok.
Keeth Saliya, after doctoral defence, 2015. Now senior specialist, Nokia radio standardization, Helsinki
after doctoral defence, Keeth Saliya - opponents Orlav Tirkkonen and Petar Popovski (on my left)
MOUs signed with UoM, UoP and SLIIT under the patronage of Minister Harsha de Silva and Finnish Ambassador, Rauli Suikkanen. 2015. The double degree program with UoP got underway afterwards.
VTC Toronto, 2017
Prof. Rohana Chandrajith, dept of Geology, UoP, my classmate 1981, met after that during ICIIS 2017 at UoP
MOU signing with YTU to start the postgraduate diploma program, Rector YTU signing
Postgraduate diploma in Telecom - a first in Myanmar, later also launched Telecom Bachelor program also a first in Myanmar
Nepal visit with Satya Joshi and Hanna Saarela, 2019
U. Oulu, 2018 with Heshani and Samad
gave keynote on 6G in WPMC 2018, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand - with Prof. Dusit Niyato and Prof. Adachi
Prof. Ramjee Prasad, negotiated WPMC Colombo to be sometime 2022+
Kirsti Westphalen, Finnish Ambassador, Thailand during the delegation visit of trade minister Jan Vapaavuori to Myanmar, Yangon 2014.
Visiting AIT in 2018 after WPMC with Dr. Vatcharaporn, Dr. Mathew Dailey and Dr. Pong.
Globecom 2018 Abu Dhabi with Sudharman Jayaweera, Samad Ali, Madhusanka Liyanage, Sumudu Samarakoon
CWC Christmas Party 2018
Dr. Anil Fernando, short course on Video Coding, CWC, 2018
Sachitha Kusaladharma, Saman Attapattu (2nd from left - former Master student) 6G Booth, Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi
My office, AIT Telecom building, 1999
Prof. Chintha Tellambura Visit CWC, Oulu, 2018
Postgraduate Diploma students, YTU, Yangon, 2019
CWC Summer Party 2018
CWC Summer Party 2018
Master graduates CWC 2019 including double degree students
Master graduates CWC 2019
Doctoral degree certificate, Samad Ali
AIT 1996 May Telecom Batch, my very first AIT students
with my batch mates Athula Seneviratne and Thusitha Sugathapala during visit and short lecture at ETNC Dept UoM, 2018
with former AIT Telecom students in Yangon 2019: Thet Tun-Oo, Thet Htun Khine and Kyaw Kyaw Aung
Nepal visit 2019 with Hanna Saarela and Satya Joshi
Ranjith Senadheera, Ravi Weerasekera, Thishan Jayasinghe and Chintha Jayasinghe, 2018.
priyantha Fernandez, Colombo, 2019, December
Celebrated (Late) Prof. A. B. Sharma, founded AIT Telecom program in 1990, 1st Dean of School of Advanced Technologies, AIT and director of Finnish Scholarship program, AIT. (former Professor, HUT, U. Oulu.)
AIT Telecom student farewell 2011, visiting from Oulu
with AIT Telecom Alumni, Wedding of Eakapong (former doctoral student), visiting from Sri Lanka.
My farewell gift from AIT Telecom
Electronics and Telecom Batch, University of Moratuwa, 1987 (last row, 1st on right)
AIT Graduation - Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa, my office
AIT Graduation - Staya Joshi
Prathapa @my office, 2007
Tapio Erke, Shahalan, Mikko Kovalainen - AIT Graduation, 2007
Juanid Qureshi, AIT Telecom, 2007
Chathuranga Weeraddana, AIT Telecom 2007
AIT 2007, Master graduation, Junaid Qureshi, Imran Khan, Jawad Ullah Khan, Shumawa May Thyn - My Master Students
WPMC 2009 Sendai, Japan. Antti Tölli and Shujat Khan. Start of active cooperation with CWC with Matti Latva-aho afterwards
Shujat Khan, WPMC 2009, Sendai
ICC 2006 Istanbul, Prof. Hlaing Minn, Dr. Teerawat Issariyakul, Prof. Ha Nguyen (all former AIT TC), Prof. Ekram Hossain
ICC 2006, Istanbul, Prof. Hlaing Minn, Prof. Ha Nguen, Prof. Umberto Mengali and Ayman Naguib
Mathew Pradeep, Eiffel Tower, Paris. (former Master student, AIT) 2011. Now data scientist, Ericsson, PhD, UQAM.
Keeth Saliya, METIS project meeting Paris, 2011
Haroon Rasheed my erstwhile Master and Doctoral student, this is NOKIA, Bangkok. Visit of AIT Telecom students
Short course by Prof. Janaka Ekanayake visiting from Cardiff atCWC, 2013, along with Prof. Kithsiri Liyanage.
Thambu Kuganeswaran and Sen Senthuran - my former Masters students, Canadian Electrical and Comp Eng Conference, 2008, Niagara Falls
ICC 2011 Kyoto, Chintha Tellambura, Angan Anpalagan, Arumugam Nallanathan, Sangarapillai Lambotharan
Satya Joshi, Madushan Thilina, Shashika Manosha at Nokia Bangkok visit by AIT Telecom students. 2008.
Opening Double degree program with UoP, Sri Lanka, OZO Hotel, Colombo, 2017.
WPMC 2009, Sendai
International Day, U. Oulu, 2019
Telecom student farewell, 2009 AIT
Graduation, Sanjeewa Herath, 2009, AIT. Now senior research engineer, Huawei, Ottawa with PhD from McGill.
Telecom - ICT student farewell, 2008 AIT
Madushan Thilina, Shashika Manosha, Namal Karunarathna and Keeth saliya, Master graduation, 2010, AIT
After doctoral defence Shashika Manosha, now senior research specialist Nokia Bell Labs, Oulu
Master graduation, Fall Covocation, 1991, University of Manitoba
receiving CEB Award for the best graduand in Electronics & Telecomm Engineeing, from Arthur C Clarke, 1987.
Graduation ceremony, Bachelor, BIMCH, Colombo, 1987. Former Vice-Chancellor Prof. Pathuwathavithana seen here with glasses.