Xavier Fernando
Adjunct Professor @Centre For Urban Energy At Toronto Metropolitan University
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WORK HISTORY
Adjunct Professor @Centre For Urban Energy At Toronto Metropolitan University
Research related to smart grid. We had a project developing wireless connectivity for electric vehicles and optimizing future electric car charging station locations in Toronto to minimize waiting time.
EDUCATION
Ryerson University
Professor
Asian Institute of Technology
MAsc
University of Peradeniya
B. Sc. Eng.
University of Calgary
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
SKILLS
ABOUT XAVIER FERNANDO
Xavier has (co) authored ~300 publications including three books, and three patents. He is the Director of the TMU Intelligent Computing and Communication Lab that has received total research funding of over $5 Million since 2008. His area of research is wireless/optical communications, vehicular networks and IoT. He was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in 2025. His work has won 30 awards and prizes so far including, number of awards, Professional Engineers Ontario Award in 2016, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, Sarnoff Symposium Prize in 2009, Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003 and CCECE best paper prize in 2001. TMU nominated him for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award in which was a finalist.He was an Associate Editor for the IOT Journal. He was an Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer and delivered over 100 invited talks. He has chaired the Toronto Section (2012-13) and Canada Central Area (2016-17) serving the Region-7 Board. He has co-edited 17 and Springer conference proceedings.He has been in the organizing/steering/technical program committees of numerous conferences and journals. He was the General Chair for the International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC) 2017 and Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2014 and 2017. He was a Member of Board of Governors of Ryerson University during 2011-12. He is a program evaluator for ABET (USA). He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT), UK in 2008 and MAPNET Fellow visiting Aston University, UK in 2014. He completed his PhD at the University of Calgary, Canada in 200, master’s at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok in 1994 and Bachelor’s at University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 1992. He worked as an R&D Engineer for AT & T during 1994-97.
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