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, Turkey. He was ranked among the top 2% of scientists in the world in 2021, 2022, and 2023, according to the Stanford-Elsevier list. In 2021, he received the Sri Lankan Presidential Award for his outstanding research performance, among many other awards and recognitions. Prof. Jayakody is a Professor at the Lusófona University, Portugal. 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 Jyväskylä, Finland, in 2019 and 2022, under the framework of the Academy of Finland. Additionally, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil, in 2019. From 2019 to 2022 and again from 2024 to 2026, he has served as a SPARC Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, India, under the framework of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and the University of Bergen, Norway. From 2016 to 2021, he was a Professor at the School of Computer Science & Robotics, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), Russia. From 2019 to 2021, he served as the Dean of the School of Postgraduate Studies & Research at Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka, and from 2021 to 2022 as the Director of Postgraduate, Research, and Impact at the same institution. He was also associated with the Department of Engineering & Computer Science/Autónoma TechLab, Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal, from 2021 to 2022. Prof. Jayakody has supervised over 10 Ph.D. students, numerous master’s students, more than 50 undergraduate students, and 5 postdoctoral researchers. Throughout his career, he has secured nearly $6 million in research funding from various international grant agencies and published over 230 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and books.He has received several prestigious awards, including the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCMIT 2017, ETIC 2019, ICARC 2024, ICAC 2024, and IRC 2023. In July 2019, he was honored with the Education Leadership Award from the World Academic Congress. In 2017 and 2018, he received the Outstanding Faculty Award from National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. Additionally, he was recognized as the Distinguished Researcher in Wireless Communications in Chennai, India, in 2019. He was also received various awards at University level from his previous employers.
