Sisil Kumarawadu obtained his BSc(Hons) in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honors in 1996 from the University of Moratuwa. He obtained his MEng in Advanced Systems Control Engineering and PhD in Robotics and Intelligent Systems in 2000 and 2003, respectively, from Saga National University, Japan. From April 2003 to July 2005, he was with the Intelligent Transportation Systems Research Center, NCTU, Taiwan, R.O.C., as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. So far, he has sole-authored 2 books and published 30 technical papers, internationally. Over the past years, he has been serving as a Reviewer of highly recognized international journals and transactions such as: IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Systems, IEEE Trans. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Control and Intelligent Systems Journal-ACTA Press/IASTED, Applied Soft Computing-Elsevier. Over the past 10 years, he has been an International Program Committee (IPC) member of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, which is widely recognized as the world's leading international conference on System Sciences and Engineering. His notable IPC involvements include: IEEE Int Conf SMC, IEEE Int Conf ICNSC, Indian Int Conf AI, Int Conf ISSNIP, and IEEE ICIAfS. Over the past years, he has been an invited speaker and international advisory board member of several international conferences in the region.
In 2008, Prof Kumarawadu was biographized in Marquis Who's Who 25th Silver Anniversary Edition of Who's Who in the World®. He is the recipient of Jaycees Top Outstanding Young Persons Award--Academic Leadership and Accomplishments, in 2009, Presidential Awards for Scientific Research Publications, 2007, 2009. His research interests include Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Adaptive Control, Power Systems Stability and Control, AI Applications, and Building Automation and Control Systems (BACS). He is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering and has also served as the Director of Engineering Research Unit of University of Moratuwa.