Prof. A. Atputharajah is serving as the Dean of
the Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna, where his team, worked at
most to establish the Faculty. Prior to this at University of Peradeniya, he
served as the Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
from October 2010. He served in several capacities including Chairman IEEE
Power and Energy Society Sri Lanka Chapter, etc.. Further he served in national
level study committees including “Power System Blackout Study”, “Capacity
Building for Clean Power Development in Sri Lanka” and “Identify strategies and
devise the way forward to achieve Renewable Energy targets”. He had
international R&D experiences at Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN)
Malaysia, at University of Queensland Australia, at University of Manchester in
United Kingdom. His achievement includes, Outstanding Engineer Award of IEEE
Power and Energy Society (PES) Sri Lanka Chapter in 2014, best project awards
in conferences and three Presidential awards, where two of them are for
research publications in 2014 and in 2010. He also published his research
findings in more than 100 full papers in the Journals and Conferences.