Dr. Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa – Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

Dr. Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa

Dr. Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa
Prathapasinghe Dharmawansa B.Sc. Eng. (Moratuwa), M.Sc (Moratuwa), D.Eng (AIT), MIEEE
Designation :
Senior Lecturer
Room :
ENTC 108

Biography

Brief Biography

I received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2003 and 2004 respectively, and the Doctor of Engineering (D. Eng.) degree in Information and Communications Technology from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand in 2007. I subsequently joined the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) as a Research Associate. From October 2011 to September 2012, I was with the Department of Communication and Networking, Aalto School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University (formerly Helsinki University of Technology (HUT)), Finland as a Postdoctoral Researcher. From October 2012 to August 2015, I was with the Department of Statistics, Stanford University. I am currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I also serve as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters journal. I received a Best Paper Award in Communication Theory at the IEEE ICC 2011 held in Kyoto, Japan 2011.

Research Interests

  • Communication Theory
  • Statistical Signal Processing
  • Random Marix Theory
  • Wireless Communication
  • Multivariate Analysis

Quotation

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action
– Into that heaven of freedom, ……..

–Chitto jetha bhayashunyo by Rabindranath Tagore

Teaching

Department of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering

  • EN 2062 Signals and Systems
  • EN 3053 Digital Communication-I
  • EN 4573 Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
  • EN 4420 Advanced Signal Processing
  • EN 5840 Signal Analysis
  • EN 5830 Engineering Decision Theory
  • EN 5860 Applied Statistical Learning

Department of Statistics, Stanford University

  • STATS 116 Theory of Probability
  • STATS 203 Introduction to Regression Models and Analysis of Variance
  • STATS 206 Applied Multivariate Analysis

Awards

Honors and Awards

Best Paper Award in Communication Theory at IEEE ICC 2011

Our paper titled “ Analysis of the level crossing rates of ordered random processes” won a best paper award in Communication Theory at IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011) held in Kyoto, Japan 2011.

 

P. Dharmawansa , M. R. McKay, and P. J. Smith, “Analysis of the level crossing rates of ordered random processes“, in the Proc. of IEEE ICC 2011, June 5-9, Kyoto, Japan, 2011.

IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Student Travel Grants Awards

Our paper titled “ Infinite series representations of the trivariate and quadrivariate Nakagami-m distributions” won an IEEE ComSoc student travel grant awards at ICC 2007 held in Glasgow, Scotland 2007.

 

P. Dharmawansa , R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and C. Tellambura, “Infinite series representations of the trivariate and quadrivariate Nakagami-m distributions”, In the Proc. of IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, Scotland, Jun. 2007, pp. 1114-1118.

IEEE Student Travel Grants Award

Our paper titled “ An exact error probability analysis of OFDM systems with frequency offset” won an IEEE student travel grant awards at the IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM 2006) held in Washington DC, 2006.

 

P. Dharmawansa , R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and H. Minn, “An exact error probability analysis of OFDM systems with frequency offset,” In the Proc. of IEEE MILCOM 2006, Washington DC, Oct. 2006, pp. 1-5.

Publications

Journals

  1. P. Dharmawansa, S. Atapattu, and M. Di Renzo, “Performance analysis of a two-tiled reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted 2*2 MIMO system”, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 493-497, Mar. 2021.
  2. L. D. Chamain, P. Dharmawansa, S. Atapattu, and C. Tellambura, “Eigenvalue-based detection of a signal in colored noise: Finite and asymptotic analyses”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 66, no. 10, pp. 6413-6433, Oct. 2020.
  3. S. Atapattu, R. Fan, P. Dharmawansa, G. Wang, J. Ivans, and T. A. Tsiftsis, “Reconfigurable surface assisted two-way communications: Performance analysis and optimization”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 6552-6567, Oct. 2020.
  4. P. Dharmawansa, B. Nadler, and O. Shwartz, “Roy’s largest root under rank-one perturbation: The complex valude case and applications”, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol. 174, 104524, Nov. 2019.
  5. S. Atapattu, P. Dharmawansa, M. Di Renzo, C. Tellambura, and J. Evans, “Multi-user relay selection for full-duplex radio”, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 955-972 , Feb. 2019.
  6. S. Atapattu, P. Dharmawansa, C. Tellambura, and J. Ivans, “Exact outage analysis of multiple-user down link with MIMO matched-filter precoding”, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 21, no. 12, pp. 2754-2757, Dec. 2017.
  7. P. Dharmawansa, “Some new results on the eigenvalues of complex non-central Wishart matrices with a rank-one mean”, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol. 149, pp. 30-53, Jul. 2016.
  8. P. Dharmawansa, M. R. McKay, and Y. Chen, “Distributions of Demmel and related condition numbers,” SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 257-279, 2013.
  9. L. Wei, P. Dharmawansa, and O. Tirkkonen, ” Multiple primary user spectrum sensing in the low SNR regime,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 1720-1731, May 2013.
  10. L. K. S. Jayasinghe, N. Rajatheva, P. Dharmawansa, and M. Latva-Aho, “Noncoherent amplify-and-forward relaying with OSTBC over Rayleigh-Rician fading channels”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 62. no. 4, pp. 1610-1622, May 2013.
  11. P. Dharmawansa, M. R. McKay, and P. J. Smith, “Generalized framework for the level crossing analysis of ordered random processes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 6, pp. 3536-3547, Jun. 2012.
  12. L. Vijayandran, P. Dharmawansa, T. Ekman, and C. Tellambura, “Analysis of aggregate interference and primary system performance in finite area cognitive radio networks,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 1811-1822, Jul. 2012.
  13. Y. Liu, P. Dharmawansa, M. R. McKay, and K. B. Letaief, “Finite-SNR diversity-multiplexing trade-off and power allocation of dual hop multiple-relay channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 60, no, 5, pp. 1451-1463, May 2012.
  14. P. Dharmawansa, M. R. McKay, R. K. Mallik, and K. B. Letaief, “Ergodic capacity and beamforming optimality for multi-antenna relaying with statistical CSI,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 2119-2131, Aug. 2011.
  15. P. Dharmawansa and M. R. McKay, “Extreme eigenvalue distributions of some complex correlated non-central Wishart and gamma-Wishart random matrices,” Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol. 102, pp. 847-868, Apr. 2011.
  16. P. Dharmawansa, M. R. McKay, and R. K. Mallik, “Analytical Performance of amplify-and-forward relaying with orthogonal space-time block codes,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 2147-2158, Jul. 2010.
  17. P. Dharmawansa and M. R. McKay, “Diagonal distribution of a 3*3 complex non-central Wishart matrix: A new trivariate non-central Chi-square density,” Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol. 100, pp. 561-580, Apr. 2009.
  18. P. Dharmawansa, R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and C. Tellambura, “Envelope and phase distributions of two correlated Gaussian variables,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 915-921, Apr. 2009.
  19. P. Dharmawansa, R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and C. Tellambura, “New series representations for the trivariate non-Central Chi-squared distribution,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 665-675, Mar. 2009.
  20. P. Dharmawansa, R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and H. Minn, “An exact error probability analysis of OFDM systems with frequency offset,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 26-31, Jan. 2009.
  21. P. Dharmawansa, R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and C. Tellambura, “On the trivariate Rician distribution,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 56, no. 12, pp. 1993-1997, Dec. 2008.
  22. P. Dharmawansa, R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and C. Tellambura, “Infinite series representations of the trivariate and quadrivariate Nakagami-m distributions,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 12, pp. 4320-4328, Dec. 2007.
  23. P. Dharmawansa, R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, and K. M. Ahmed, “On the distribution of the sum of Nakagami-m variables,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 1407-1416, July 2007.
  24. P. Dharmawansa and R. M. A. P. Rajatheva, “Pairwise error probability of space-time codes in frequency selective Rician channels,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 894-896, Oct. 2005.

Contact

Contact Me

Address

Room No: EB 108
Department of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
University of Moratuwa
Moratuwa
10400
Sri Lanka

Office

+94-11-2650634

Email

prathapa@uom.lk

Office Hours

8.00 am - 5.00 pm