Sumudu Edirisinghe | Principle Engineer
Nokia

Sumudu Edirisinghe obtained BEng in Electronic Systems Engineering from University of Essex in 1997 and in 2001 was awarded a PhD in Optical communications by University of Essex for his research work on high-speed dispersion tolerant transmission systems. Over the next 20 years he has been working as an R&D and a design Engineer for several telecommunication equipment manufactures in Europe and USA, designing, developing products and testing transmission equipment for fiber optic communication systems. He holds several US patents and has several publications. He is currently a principle subsea engineer at Nokia and a visiting professor at Kotelawala Defense University. He is senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of IET.