Dr. Himal A. Suraweera

Senior Lecturer
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering,
University of Peradeniya

Dr. Himal A. Suraweera is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Between January 2011 and May 2013, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. Between July 2009 and January 2011, he worked at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore as a Research Fellow. Prior to that, he worked at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia as a research fellow.

His research interests are in wireless communications and communication theory, particularly relay networks, energy harvesting and green communications, full-duplex systems, physical layer security, cognitive radio, and MIMO systems. Dr. Suraweera received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2011 and currently serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters.

He has served as a Technical Program Committee member for conferences including IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, VTC, and PIMRC. He has also been recognized with IEEE exemplary reviewer certificates and is a member of the IEEE.