Asanka is a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, currently on study leave for postgraduate studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

 

He graduated with a BSc(Engineering) with First Class Honours in Electrical Engineering in 2002  and earned MSc  from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2004. He got the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Full scholarship while pursuing postgraduate studies in Sri Lanka.

 

After finishing his undergraduate studies, he worked with a private consultancy firm in Sri Lanka as an Engineering team leader and involved with several major power sector project in Sri Lanka. He jointed the University of Moratuwa as a lecturer in 2004 after completing his masters degree. At the same time he served to the ABB Utilities GmbH (Germany) as the Deputy Site Manager of the KG1-Water treatment plant project in Sri Lanka, which was successfully handed over to Sri Lankan government in late 2006. In this project, he was responsible for all the installations of Instrumentation, Control Monitoring and Electrical (ICM-E) works and he led five Engineers, six technical offices and around 40~50 skill and non-skill workers.