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Ajith Pasqual

Dr. Ajith Pasqual is a Senior Lecturer and former Head of the  Department of Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering, at  the University of Moratuwa, and also the former Director/Center  for Information Technology Services at the same university. He  is also the founder and CEO of the first Semiconductor Startup  Company in Sri Lanka – Paraqum Technologies which develops  products in high-performance hardware-accelerated Deep  Packet Inspection (DPI) based network analyzers and traffic  shapers and engages in high-end Electronics Product Design. At  present, he serves as the Director/Enterprise-University Business  Linkage Cell at the University of Moratuwa and also is the  current president of the Sri Lanka Electrical and Electronic  Manufacturers and Exporters Association (SLEMEA). He also  serves as a member of the advisory committee related to the  Electrical and Electronics Industry at the Export Development  Board (EDB) and at the Ministry of Industries. He is a council  member at National Research Council (NRC) and at SLTC  Research University.

He received his B.Sc. Engineering degree with First Class  Honours from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in  Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering in 1993, M.Eng.  and Ph.D. degrees from The University of Tokyo in Computer  Vision in 1998 and 2001 respectively. His primary research interests are in Computer Vision, Application Processors, and  SoC Architecture and he leads the Reconfigurable Digital  Systems Research Group at the University of Moratuwa which  works in the area of hardware acceleration, novel architectures  for application-specific processors and SoCs to improve  performance and power efficiency. Since 2004, he has been  focusing heavily on reconfigurable logic systems and their  applications in Computer Vision, Video Compression, Mobile  Communications, Networking, and Bio Signal Processing.

He is driving the initiative to create an Advanced Electronics  Design Industry in Sri Lanka and was instrumental in getting a  government grant in January 2014 to establish a Facilitation  Center for Advanced Electronics Design at the University of  Moratuwa to promote startup companies. His vision is to make  Electronics Sector the highest export revenue earner for the  country.