Dr. Shamil Appathurai has over two decades experience in the Telecommunications and ICT industry. He is currently Head of SLT-Mobitel’s Network Strategy & Transformation, and is a Founder Council Member, advisor and lecturer at the Sri Lanka Technology Campus (SLTC). He was formerly a Design & Development Consultant at British Telecommunications Plc. (BT) in the UK, where he managed a European Union funded project on developing Long-Reach Passive Optical Networks. He was also Post Graduate Research Fellow at University College London, UK. Dr. Shamil was winner of the Institute of Engineering and Technology’s Annual Innovations in Engineering Award in 2007, and has authored/co-authored over 20 publications in international conferences and peer-reviewed journals.
