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A. W. Jayawardena is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Hong Kong where he has been teaching for many years. He has also been a Visiting Professor, Chu Hai College of Higher Education, Hong Kong; a Technical Advisor to the Research and Development Centre, Nippon Koei Co. Ltd, Japan; Research and Training Advisor to the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) under the auspices of UNESCO and concurrently a Professor in the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Japan; a Guest /Visiting Professor of Beijing Normal, Hohai and Tsinghua Universities, China; Honorary Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences of the University of Hong Kong; an Adjunct Professor of Vellore Institute of Technology, India; Senior Engineer, Howard Humphrey & Sons, Consulting Engineers, UK; and an Engineer in the Irrigation Department of Sri Lanka. His awards include Visiting International Fellowship of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI), American Society of Civil Engineers; International Award, Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources, and, Invitational Fellowship, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has authored the books 'Environmental and Hydrological Systems Modelling', 'Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics, Hydrology and Water Resources for Civil Engineers', and, authored/co-authored over 200 publications.