Prof. Dush N. K. Jayakody is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics and Communications Engineering from University College Dublin, Ireland, in 2014, and his MSc in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University, Türkiye. He was ranked among the top 2% of scientists in the world in 2021-2025, according to the Stanford-Elsevier list. In 2019-2021 he received the President Award for his outstanding research performance, among many other awards and recognitions in Sri Lanka. He is a Professor at the Lusofona University, Portugal and Researcher at INOV-INESC, Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2025, Prof Jayakody is appointed as a Visiting Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has held visiting and/or sabbatical positions at the Center for Telecommunications Research, University of Sydney, Australia, in 2015, and Texas A&M University, USA, in 2018. He was a visiting professor at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, in 2019 and 2022, under the framework of the Academy of Finland. From 2019 to 2022 and from 2024-2026 to onwards, he has been serving as a SPARC International PI in the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, under the framework of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. Additionally, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, in 2019. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and the University of Bergen, Norway. From 2016-2021, he was a Professor of the Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia, from 2020-2019, he served as a Dean, Postgraduate & Research at the SLTC Research University. He has supervised over 10 Ph.D. students, numerous master’s students and undergraduate students, and 5 postdoctoral researchers. Throughout his career, he has secured nearly $6 million in research funding from various international grant agencies such as EU Commission, FCT, Govt of India and Industries. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCMIT 2017, ETIC 2019, ICARC 2024, ICAC 2024, and IRC 2023. Prof. Jayakody has published nearly 300 international peer reviewed journal and conference papers and books. His research interests include PHY and NET layer prospective of 5G and Beyond Wireless Communications technologies such as SWIPT, NOMA for 5G etc, Quantum Communications, Visible Light Communications, Semantic Communications LDPC codes and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle etc.
