Integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Wireless Communication and Networks

He held visiting and/or sabbatical positions at the Center for Telecommunications Research, University of Sydney, Australia in 2015 and Texas A&M University in 2018. He was a visiting professor at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland both in 2019 and 2022 within the framework of the Academy of Finland. He also served as a visiting professor at the University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil in 2019. From 2019-2022, he has been a resource person/visiting professor for the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Tiruchirappalli, India, within the SPARC project of the Ministry of Human Resources in India. Prof. Jayakody has received the best paper award from the International Conference on Communication, Management and Information Technology (ICCMIT) in 2017 and International Conference on Emerging Technologies of Information and Communications, Bhutan, March 2019. In July 2019, Prof.Jayakody received the Education Leadership Award from the World Academic Congress in 2019. In 2017 and 2018, he received the outstanding faculty award by National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia. He also received the Distinguished Researcher in Wireless Communications in Chennai, India 2019. Prof. Jayakody received the Presidential Award for outstanding research performance in the year 2021. He also received "Best Publication Award" at the Sri Lanka Technological Campus, Sri Lanka in 2019 and 2020. 

Dr. P. Muthuchidambaranathan received his B.Engg. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Government College of Technology, Coimbatore, India, in 1992, the M.Engg. Degree in Microwave and Optical Engineering, from A.C. College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, India, in 1994. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in optical communication from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India in 2009. He is currently working as a Professor and Head of the department in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, India. His research interests include recent technologies in wireless communications, and optical communications. He published his research papers in refereed international journals, and international and national conferences. He is an author of the textbook "Wireless Communications" (published by Prentice Hall of India).

Rui Dinis (S'96, M'00, SM'14) received the Ph.D. degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001 and the Habilitation in Telecommunications from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), in 2010. From 2001 to 2008 he was a Professor at IST. Currently he is an associated professor at FCT-UNL. During 2003 he was an invited professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He was a resear