Prof. Maheshi Dissanayake is a professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya, and a Senior member of IEEE. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK in 2010 and a B.Sc(Honors) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka in 2006. She began working at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya in 2010 and from 2015 to 2017, she worked as a visiting research fellow at King's College, London. She served as the chairperson of the IEEE Sri Lanka Section for the year 2021-22. She is the founder and past chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Sri Lanka section for the years 2015–16, 2016–17, and 2020–21. Prof. Maheshi Dissanayake received the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Leadership Award 2022 in recognition of her exceptional leadership in advancing the status of women engineers and increasing IEEE and IEEE Women in Engineering member participation in Sri Lanka. Her reserach interests span the following areas: machine learning, deep learning for computer vision, error correction codes, video communication, and biological image analysis. She has served as an organising committee member and TPC Member of many reputed conferences, and as a reviewer in SCI journals in the areas of molecular communication, biomedical imaging, image processing and computer vision.