Diluka Galappaththige

Diluka Galappaththige (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronic engineering from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2017, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the School of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, USA, in 2021. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. His current research interests include but are not limited to, the design, modeling, and analysis of massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) communication (i.e., including co-located mMIMO and cell-free/distributed mMIMO), full-duplex communication (FD), backscatter communication (BackCom), reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), wireless power transfer, and emerging technologies for enabling fifth-generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks. He was a recipient of the Exemplary Reviewer Award for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2020 and IEEE Communications Letters in 2021. He has actively served as a reviewer for a variety of IEEE journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Access, IEEE Network, TCL, TWCL, ICC, and GLOBCOM.