Kumar Wickramasinghe

Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe FRS is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.^[1][2]

Kumar Wickramasinghe FRS
Born	Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe
Alma mater	King's College London (BSc) University College London (PhD)
Known for	Scanning thermal microscopy
Awards	Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (2000)
Scientific career
Fields	Scanning probe microscopy Nanotechnology Nanobiotechnology[1]
Institutions	University of California, Irvine
Thesis	Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids (1974)
Doctoral advisor	Eric Ash
Website	engineering.uci.edu/users/h-kumar-wickramasinghe

Education

He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD^[3] in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash.^[4]

Career and research

He was awarded the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019.^[5] He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.

Personal life

He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.