Associate ProfessorKanchana Thilakarathna

BSc Eng (Hons) PhD

Dr Kanchana Thilakarathna is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney. Kanchana’s current research interests include cybersecurity, data privacy, applied AI, mobile networks and mixed reality.

Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Kanchana was a Research Scientist at the Networks Group, Cyber-Physical Systems Research Program at Data61-CSIRO and previously NICTA during Nov 2014 - Aug 2017. Kanchana received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from The University of New South Wales. For his PhD thesis entitled “Moving from Clouds to Mobile Clouds: Cost-Efficient Privacy-Aware Mobile Content Delivery”, Kanchana received the Malcolm Chaikin Prize in 2015 which is awarded to the Best Engineering PhD Thesis among all engineering disciplines at UNSW and iAwards 2015 for the best Postgraduate Tertiary Student in NSW, Australia. Kanchana received his B.Sc. Engineering degree with First Class Honours specialising in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from The University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.