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Prof. Rahula Attalage is the Pro Vice Chancellor Academic at the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). He is Professor Emeritus, University of Moratuwa, former Deputy Vice Chancellor, and former Senior Professor in Mechanical Engineering of the University of Moratuwa. He is a Chartered Engineer of the Institution of Engineers Sri Lanka, Corporate Member, and a past President of Sri Lanka Energy Managers Association, Fellow and Past President of Lanka Association of Building Services Engineers (LABSE), Fellow National Academy of Sciences Sri Lanka. Prof. Rahula Attalage has served as a visiting faculty member of AIT, Thailand, and as a Visiting Professor at Toyohashi University of Technology in Japan, and has been involved in higher education and research for the past 35 years. He has also held the posts of member of the commission of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka, Chairman of the National Institute of Fisheries and Nautical Engineering, and member of the board of directors of the National Engineering Research and Development Center, and a member of many committees on developing energy performance standards. He is currently a member of the University Grants Commission and a board member of the urban development authority. He has published more than 85 journal and conference papers, and is a recipient of the Presidential Award for Scientific Publications on several occasions. He was bestowed the honorary distinction for an academic “Order of the Academic Palms”, by the Government of France in 2018.