Kosala Gunawardane is currently a Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests are analog circuit design, low-dropout regulators, supercapacitor-based applications, and superconductor applications in power engineering and DC microgrids. Gunawardane received a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2005. She completed her Ph.D. degree at the University of Waikato, New Zealand, in 2014 in Electronics Engineering.