S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole, B.Sc. Eng. Hons Cey., M.Sc. with Mark of Distinction London, Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon, is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University in the US. For his accomplishments in electromagnetic product synthesis the University of London awarded him its higher doctorate, the D.Sc. (Eng.) degree, in 1993, and the IEEE elevated him to the grade of Fellow in 1995 with the citation “For contributions to computational methods for design optimization of electrical devices.”

Professor Hoole has been Vice Chancellor of University of Jaffna in Sri Lanka, and as Member of the University Grants Commission there, was responsible with six others for the regulation of the administration of all 15 Sri Lankan universities and their admissions and funding. He has contributed widely to the learned literature on Tamil studies and been a regular columnist in newspapers.

Professor Hoole has been trained in Human Rights Research and Teaching at The René Cassin International Institute of Human Rights, Strasbourg, France, and has pioneered teaching human rights in the engineering curriculum. In his recent work for the US Army’s Tank Automotive Research development and Engineering Center, Prof. Hoole has been applying his design optimization methodology to identifying defects such as corrosion and post-IED damage in the armour of ground vehicles through Michigan State University’s Nondestructive Evaluation Laboratory. The system he is building inverts eddy current testing data on a graphics processing unit for quick characterization of defects in the theatre.

Professor Paul R.P. Hoole was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 1958. After having his basic schooling in Jaffna, he earned all his degrees, first degree to postgraduate, in the United Kingdom. He holds an MSc degree in Electrical Engineering with a Mark of Distinction from the University of London and an MSc degree in Plasma Science from University of Oxford. His doctorate, the D.Phil. degree, is from the University of Oxford. In his engineering career he has spent time in Singapore, Papua New Guinea, USA, Sri Lanka and Malaysia.

His most recent published research has been in the areas of electromagnetic wireless communication/navigation antennas, electromagnetic brain technology and science, climate electromagnetics and lightning-aircraft electrodynamics. Beyond the time he devotes to engineering teaching and research, Prof. Hoole also spends time studying and teaching the Bible applied to contemporary times in seminaries and churches. He is married to a medical doctor, Chrishanthy, and they have three children: Esther, Ezekiel and Elisabeth.

Dr K. Pirapaharan, BSc. Eng. Hons (Peradeniya), M.Eng (Kinki, Japan), PhD (Kinki, Japan), is Senior Lecturer at School of Engineering, Taylor’s University in Malaysia. His PhD degree is in the area of microwave and millimeter waves.

From 2001 to 2003, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Computational Electromagnetics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA. From 2004 to 2011, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Electrical and Information Engineering Department at University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka where he was the head of the department from 2005 to 2008.

Dr Pirapaharan’s research interests include wave propagation in inhomogeneous media, adaptive antenna techniques and computational electromagnetics. He is a member of the IEEE and IET.