Dr. Aruna Seneviratne is a professor of telecommunications at the University of New South Wales (Australia), where he holds the Mahanakorn Chair of Telecommunications. He obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1984 from the University of Bath, the UK. He has worked at a number of other universities in Australia, the UK, and France and industrial organizations, including Muirhead, Standard Telecommunication Labs, Avaya Labs, and Telecom Australia (Telstra). In addition, he has held visiting appointments at INIRA (France) and has been awarded a number of fellowships, including one at British Telecom and one at Telecom Australia Research Labs. His current research interests are in physical analytics: technologies that enable applications to interact intelligently and securely with their environment in real time. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters.
