Dushmantha N. Thalakotuna (M'09-SM'19) obtained his B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunication from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2008 and PhD in Electronic Engineering from Macquarie University, Australia in 2012. He is currently a lecturer in School of Electrical and Data Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. From 2013-2019, he has worked in multiple radio frequency and systems engineering roles designing antennas and MMICs and RF systems for both commercial and defence industries including some Base station antenna manufacturers. He is an inventor of three base station antenna related patent applications and authored over 20 referred journal and conference publications. Dr. Dushmantha was the recipient of several prestigious awards including VIRA Young Scientist in Electronics Award, International Macquarie University Scholarship and CSIRO PhD fellowship. He currently serves as the IEEE NSW section secretary and is a member of Antennas and Propagation Society and Microwave Theory and Techniques Society.