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Madhusanka Liyanage

Young Academy Ireland Member

Assistant Professor/Ad Astra Fellow and Director of Graduate Research UCD

Madhusanka Liyanage is an Assistant Professor/Ad Astra Fellow and Director of Graduate Research at the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin. He specialises in enhancing security and privacy in future mobile networks and is currently a Principle Investigator for two large EU H2020/Horizon Europe projects.  He also received the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship and the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship. In addition, he has received several awards, including the SFI CONNECT Tom Brazil Excellence in Research Award and Irish Research Council (IRC) Research Ally Prize. In 2020 and 2021, Madhusanka was also ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists in the List prepared by Elsevier BV, Stanford University, USA. He has also received the "2020 IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher" award by IEEE ComSoc EMEA.  

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