Sithamparanathan Sabesan was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka,
in 1984. Dr. Sabesan moved to the UK in 2004 to study
BEng (Hons) Electronic Engineering at Sheffield
University, where he scored highest marks in his year
and awarded the Sir William Siemens Medal for being the
country's top 18 science and technology students. He was
previously with the Cambridge University spin off
company ARM, as a student IP Electronic Engineer. He
moved to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University in
2007 to study for his Masters degree (MPhil) in
Electronic Engineering before beginning his PhD in 2008
on the subject of 'Passive RFID real time sensing system
for intelligent infrastructure'. He received funding
from the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Corpus Christi
College Scholarship and EPSRC (TINA and Boeing)
Studentship to pursue MPhil and PhD at Cambridge
University.
He has received a number of awards, has had his work
published in various journals and currently has two
patents pending for his work into RFID. A keen
cricketer, Dr. Sabesan has captained the Corpus Christi
College MCR team and is also an elected president of
University of Cambridge Graduate Cricket League and
chairman of Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Cambridge Younger Professionals Committee.
He has just been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship
at Girton College, Cambridge University. Dr. Sabesan has
recently been selected as the winner of The UK EPSRC ICT
Pioneers Connected World Award, as well as the The Royal
Academy of Engineering ERA Foundation Entrepreneurs
Award 2011. |
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