Researcher Information - Dr. Himal Suraweera


Personal Details

Name Dr. Himal Suraweera
Affiliation Centre for Telecommunication and Microelectronics
Victoria University
Contact Details School of Electrical Engineering, Victoria University
Melbourne, VIC
Phone: (03) 9919 4027
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Biography

Himal A. Suraweera was born in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka. He received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (First Class Honours) from the Peradeniya University, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2001. From 2001 to 2002 he was with the Communications Lab, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Peradeniya University as an instructor. He received the Ph.D degree from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in 2007. He is currently with the center for Telecommunications and Microelectronics, Victoria University, Melbourne as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He was awarded the 2007 Mollie Holman Doctoral and 2007 Kenneth Hunt Medals for his doctoral thesis upon graduating from Monash University. He was also a recipient of the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) awarded by the commonwealth of Australia and a Monash University Departmental Scholarship. His main research interests include OFDM, wireless relay networks, MIMO techniques and cognitive radio. Dr. Suraweera serves as a Technical Program Committee Member for international conferences such as ICC '09, ICC '08, GLOBECOM '08, WCNC '08 and PIMRC '08.

Areas of Expertise

Research Areas Communications Theory; Space-Time Communications; Signal Processing; Wireless Access; Information Theory;
Application Areas Broadband Communications; Wireless Data Communications;