title: Kumar Wickramasinghe
text: # Kumar Wickramasinghe
  
  Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe FRS is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.
  
  ## Education
  
  He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash.
  
  ## Career and research
  
  He was awarded the Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science in 2000. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2019. He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.
  
  