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Heriot-Watt University

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4.08/20/2025

A true gem in the academic community.

5.04/30/2025

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About Mathini

Professor Mathini Sellathurai is a Professor in the School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, specializing in signal processing for wireless communications. She earned her PhD from McMaster University in 2001, for which she received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Doctoral Award for her dissertation on the Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time architecture. Previously, she obtained a Licentiate degree in electrical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1997, and a Bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Her career trajectory includes a visiting researcher position at Bell Laboratories, New Jersey, USA, in 2000, and Senior Research Scientist at the Canadian Government Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, from 2001 to 2004. She joined Heriot-Watt University in 2004, was promoted to full Professor in 2012, served as Head of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering from 2015 to 2019, and as Dean of Science and Engineering from 2020 to 2024. She also held an Honorary Adjunct/Associate Professorship at McMaster University from 2009 to 2013.