A/Professor Kumudu Munasinghe holds a PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from University of Sydney. He is currently the Associate Professor in Network Engineering, leader of the IoT Research Group at the Human Centred Research Centre, University of Canberra.

His research focuses on Next Generation Mobile and Wireless Networks, Internet-of-Things, Green Communication, Smart Grid Communications, and Cyber-Physical-Security. A/Professor Munasinghe has over 100 refereed publications with over 800 citations (H-index 16) in highly prestigious journals, conference proceedings and two books to his credit.

He has secured over $ 1.6 Million dollars in competitive research funding by winning grants from the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Commonwealth and State Governments, Department of Defence, and the industry. He has also won the highly prestigious ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, served as a co-chair for many international conferences, served as an editorial board member for a number of journals. A/Professor Munasinghe's research has been highly commended through many research awards including two VC's Research Awards and three IEEE Best Paper Awards.

He is currently a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Charted Professional Engineer, an Engineering Executive and a Companion (Fellow Status) of Engineers Australia.