I am a Bachelor of Technology (First class Hons) graduate from The Open University of Sri Lanka specialized in Electronic and Communication Engineering. I recently received the Master of Philosophy degree specialized in wireless communications from the Open University of Sri Lanka by introducing and analyzing the performance of novel parallel relay communication scheme with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and physical layer network coding (PNC). In highlighting few of my achievements, I have been awarded the O.P Kulshethra Gold Medal as the best student in the Faculty of Engineering Technology, The Open University of Sri Lanka Manamperi Merit Award by Sri Lanka Association of Advancement of Science (SLAAS) and E. W. Karunarathna Merit Award, Migara Ranathunga Trust Award by Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka (IESL).

Currently I work as a PhD student in N3Cat, following my research on characterization and analyzing the performance of wireless channels on chip in physical layer. My focus is mainly on the technique time reversal (TR), to explore its impact on chip-level communications, specifically analyzing the effects on modulations schemes, multiple access capabilities and the resolution reduction when moving from ideal to practical filter implementation. In addition, I’m keen to work on over the air computing (OTA) in the context of wireless networks on chip and 5G/6G wireless communication technologies.

The list of publications based on my research work can be found in Google Scholar Profile, Ama Bandara