Vidya Jyothi Professor  K.K.Y.W.Perera  was the founder and Head of the Department of Electronics  and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Moratuwa and its predecessors in 1969.  This was the first ever Department of Electronics and Telecom Engineering in a Sri Lankan University, and was formally instituted in 1972 at the formation of the Katubedda Campus of the then University of Sri Lanka.