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Professor Aruna Seneviratne is the Foundation Professor of Telecommunications and holds the Mahanakorn Chair of Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales (Australia) within the School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. He previously served as Director of the Australian Technology Park Laboratory of NICTA (Australia's Information and Communications Technology Centre of Excellence) and became Research Director for the Cyber Physical Systems Research Program following NICTA's merger with CSIRO to create Data61.
Professor Seneviratne's primary research focus is on physical analytics: technologies that enable applications to interact intelligently and securely with their environment in real time. His work spans wireless communications, IoT security, behavioral biometrics, and wearable technology. Most recently, his team has been developing applications in behavioral biometrics, optimizing wearable device performance, and IoT system verification. His research has significant implications for next-generation services in a digital economy, particularly in trust establishment, energy-efficient content storage, search, and distribution.
Professor Seneviratne has published over 180 refereed technical papers and book chapters, with his most recent work focusing on WiFi sensing, backscatter communication, and security applications. His publications demonstrate a strong trend toward practical IoT applications, security challenges in wireless systems, and innovative sensing techniques using existing communication infrastructure.
- British Telecom Fellowship
- Telecom Australia Research Labs Fellowship
Professor Seneviratne has supervised 30 PhD dissertations throughout his career and has held visiting appointments at INIRA (France). His work bridges academic research and industry applications, having worked with industrial organizations including Muirhead, Standard Telecommunication Labs, Avaya Labs, and Telecom Australia (Telstra). He maintains strong connections between his academic position at UNSW and practical applications through his leadership roles in research centers.
Professor Seneviratne leads the Networked System research activities within NICTA/Data61, focusing on developing new technologies for the digital economy. His laboratory work emphasizes real-world applications of physical analytics, with recent projects including WiFi sensing systems for environmental monitoring in vehicular tunnels, keystroke recognition using RF signals, and secure backscatter communication techniques. His team works at the intersection of theoretical research and practical implementation, often collaborating with industry partners to translate research findings into deployable systems.
