| Kumar Wickramasinghe | |
| Birth Name: | Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe |
| Fields: | Scanning probe microscopy Nanotechnology Nanobiotechnology |
| Workplaces: | University of California, Irvine |
| Alma Mater: | King's College London (BSc) University College London (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Two and Three Dimensional Acoustic Holography in Solids |
| Thesis Url: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.477197 |
| Thesis Year: | 1974 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Eric Ash |
| Known For: | Scanning thermal microscopy |
| Awards: | Joseph F. Keithley Award For Advances in Measurement Science (2000) |
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Hemantha Kumar Wickramasinghe is Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.[1]
He graduated from King's College London with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering in 1970 and a PhD[2] in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London in 1974 where his advisor was Eric Ash.[3]
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.[4] He is a member of the Center for Chemistry at the Space-Time Limit.
He is the brother of noted mathematician, astronomer and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe.