Shirantha Welikala

Shirantha Welikala received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2015 and the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in Systems Engineering from Boston University, Brookline, MA, USA, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. From 2015 to 2017, he was with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, where he worked first as a Temporary Instructor and subsequently as a Research Assistant. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA. His main research interests include control and optimization of cooperative multi-agent systems with a particular emphasis on coverage and monitoring applications, networked systems, passivity, symbolic control, machine-learning, robotics, and smart-grid applications. He is a recipient of several awards, including the 2015 Ceylon Electricity Board Gold Medal, the 2019 President's Award for Scientific Research in Sri Lanka, and the 2021 Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Systems Engineering.