Dr Beeshanga Jayawickrama received BEng in Telecommunications Engineering (Hons I) and PhD in Electronic Engineering (Wireless Communications) degrees from Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, in 2011 and 2015 respectively. He is currently a Senior Lecturer and the Data Science Engineering Course Director in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Dr Jayawickrama previously worked in Ericsson, Sweden. He researched on 5G New Radio (NR) receiver algorithms. Some of his inventions are widely used in Ericsson 5G base stations and submitted as 3GPP RAN1 contributions. Prior to joining Ericsson, he worked with Intel Labs, USA, on Licensed Shared Access and Citizens Broadband Radio Service. He has published over 40 prestigious conference/journal papers and US Patents.

His current research interests are in 5G/6G Physical Layer signal processing algorithms, Machine Learning techniques for Physical Layer signal processing, Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications, Non-Terrestrial Networks, Compressed Sensing (Sub-Nyquist Sampling) and spectrum sharing.

Additionally, he has taught numerous undergraduate and postgraduate subjects in Electronics and Telecommunications at Sydney Institute of Business and Technology, Macquarie University and University of Technology Sydney.

He is the recipient of Macquarie University Medal in Engineering and Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellence. He received competitive scholarships from Macquarie University and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation throughout his BEng and PhD studies.