PhD candidate Thilina Nuwan Weerasinghe started working on WP6.2 on January 29, 2016. The title of WP6.2 is “Design of architecture and self-organized cross-layer protocols for a heterogeneous wireless network platform”.

He received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, in 2009, and the M.Sc. degree in Information and Communication Technology from University of Agder, Norway, in 2015. He has worked as an Engineer in Radio Network Optimization in various telecommunication related projects in SriLanka and Maldives. He also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ruhuna. Thilina joined the WISENET on February 2016 as a Ph.D. student and he is involved in the SFI project. His current research focuses on Theory and Design of self-organised application-driven cross-layer protocols for heterogeneous wireless networks in industrial environments, covering use cases related to both integrated operations and drilling.