Dr. Tharaka Dissanayake is with the Australian
Communications and Media Authority. He came
to Canberra as a Radiocommunications Engineer,
after many years of research and teaching at
Universities.
Dr.Tharaka Dissanayake was
born in Matara Sri Lanka, studied at Rahula
College Matara up to G.C.E. advanced level.
He received the B.Sc.Eng. degree in electronics
and telecommunications engineering (with first-class
honors) from the University of Moratuwa, Sri
Lanka, in 2002. and the Ph.D. degree in electronics
at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia,
in 2007. From 2002 to 2003, he was an Assistant
Lecturer at the University of Moratuwa. He has
been a visiting lecturer at Kotalawala Defence
Academy and Arthur C. Clerk Centre for Modern
Technology and a lecturer in Electronics at
Macquarie University. He was a Junior Research
Assistant in statistics for the Postgraduate
Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya,
Sri Lanka, in 1997. His current research interests
are in ultra-wideband antennas, antenna diversity,
and microwave imaging techniques.
Tharaka is fortunate to call few of the world's
favourite cities, Matara, Sydney, Newcastle
and Canberra the capital home. He is married
to Asha Mahanama.
|
