Mahinda Vilathgamuwa is Professor of Power Engineering in th
School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
at

Queensland University of Technology Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a public research university located in the urban coastal city of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. QUT is located on two campuses in the Brisbane area viz. Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove. The univ ...

(QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. After completing his high school education at Nalanda College, Colombo, Vilathgamuwa entered the

University of Moratuwa (''Vidyaayev Sharvadhanam'') , motto_lang = Sanskrit , mottoeng = Wisdom is all Wealth , established = , type = Public , chancellor = K. K. Y. W. Perera , vice_chancellor = N. ...

; graduating with a

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(BSc) in Electrical Engineering (Honours) in 1984. In 1985 Vilathgamuwa started his academic career as assistant lecturer at University of Moratuwa. Later after obtaining a

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(PhD) in Electrical Engineering from

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he became a senior lecturer at Moratuwa. His doctoral thesis was entitled ''Control of voltage-sourced reversible rectifiers'' From 1993 - 2013 Vilathgamuwa served as an academic in the capacities of lecturer, assistant professor and associate professor at

Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various inte ...

(NTU) in Singapore. Professor Vilathgamuwa is a fellow of the

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(IEEE).

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