Thushan Sivalingam

Thushan Sivalingam (Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2015. He earned a double M.Sc. (Tech.) degree in wireless communications from the University of Oulu, Finland, and the University of Peradeniya in 2019, and a D.Sc. (Tech.) degree with distinction from the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, in 2025. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Access Network Planning Engineer with Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka. His research interests include deep learning-based efficient and fast access methods for mMTC, grant-free NOMA, THz sensing, and semantic communications. Dr Thushan won first place in the CWC Doctoral Thesis Pitch Competition in 2024. He has served as a Technical Programme Committee member for IEEE VTC, IEEE ANTS, and IEEE INFOCOM, and is a Reviewing Editor in the Springer Nature Reviewer Programme.