Nishan Canagarajah

Professor Cedric Nishan Canagarajah (born 1966; known as Nishan Canagarajah) is a British Tamil academic and the current president and vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester.[1] He was previously one of the pro-vice-chancellors of the University of Bristol.[2]

Professor

Nishan Canagarajah
Born1966 (age 53–54)
Sri Lanka
Other namesC. N. Canagarajah
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
OccupationAcademic

Early life and family

Canagarajah was born in 1966 in Sri Lanka.[3][4] His mother was a teacher.[5] He was educated at St. John's College, Jaffna.[6] After school he joined the University of Cambridge from where he received a BA honours degree in electronics and information sciences in 1989 and a Ph.D. in digital signal processing in 1993.[3][4][7]

Canagarajah is married to Thabitha.[5] They have a daughter (Aarabi) and two sons (Sujan and Dheeran).[5]

Career

Canagarajah joined the University of Bristol in 1993 as a research assistant.[3][4] He was promoted to lecturer in 1994, senior lecturer in 1999 and reader in 2001.[4] He became professor of multimedia signal processing in 2004.[3][4] He was promoted to research director at the university's Faculty of Engineering in 2006 and head of Department of Computer Science in 2009.[3] He became head of Merchant Venturers School of Engineering in 2010 before becoming dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 2011.[3] He was appointed pro-vice-chancellor for research and enterprise in August 2014.[3] In August 2019 it was announced that he would become president and vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester in November 2019.[8][9]

Canagarajah's research contributions in image segmentation and texture classification are internationally recognized and his research on audio signal processing led to an interactive exhibit, Virtual Drum, at the London Science Museum.[10] He has led a number of successful international research partnerships and is currently theme leader for the joint £5M EPSRC/DST collaborative programme on next generation telecommunications systems and services, which includes a number of UK and Indian universities and industrial partners.[11]

Canagarajah has served on a number of national and international panels on research funding, governance and postgraduate education. He acted as a technical consultant for several industrial partners including Sony, BT, BBC, Orange, Thales, Toshiba and the Metropolitan Police Service.[12][13][14] He is part of the Universities UK advisory group to tackle racial harassment in higher education.[15]

gollark: There are a lot of possibilities, but most are gibberish.
gollark: `d-r-a-g-o-n-5-0-0-0`
gollark: `B-O-B-T-H-E-D-R-A-G-O-N`
gollark: Or dashes!
gollark: ward (stupidly limited)fog (not possible for trades, stops people looking at stuff anyway, ineffective against existing sickness)

References
  1. "Senior staff". University of Leicester.
  2. "Senior staff". University of Bristol.
  3. "Pro Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nishan Canagarajah". University of Bristol.
  4. "Professor Nishan Canagarajah". Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol.
  5. "Speaking Personally" (PDF). LynchPin: 19. Spring 2009.
  6. "Professor Nishan Canagarajah's Appointment as Pro-Vice Chancellor of Bristol University". Tha Lifestyle. 1 (3): 1. March 2014.
  7. "University of Bristol appoints new Pro Vice-Chancellor". University of Bristol. 11 March 2014.
  8. "New Vice-Chancellor named". Leicester, U.K.: University of Leicester. 19 August 2019. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  9. Martin, Dan (20 August 2019). "University of Leicester appoints Nishan Canagarajah as new vice-chancellor". Leicester Mercury. Leicester, U.K. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
  10. "Professor Nishan Canagarajah - University of Bristol". research-information.bris.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  11. "UK-India research collaboration deepens - EPSRC website". epsrc.ukri.org. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  12. "President and Vice-Chancellor | About | University of Leicester". le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  13. "Digital institute gets £29m boost". BBC News. 2019-07-10. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  14. "Thales and Bristol University sign strategic agreement to collaborate in research and education activities | Thales Group". www.thalesgroup.com. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  15. "University of Leicester experts appointed to prestigious panel on harassment". le.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-10.


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