Prof. Janaka Bandara Ekanayake has published over 120 refereed journal papers and 130 conference papers, and co-authored 8 books. He has a Google Scholar h-index of 58 with 17,362 citations, the highest for engineering in Sri Lanka. In 2020, an article published by researchers from Stanford University and Elsevier BV ranked him among the top 2% of researchers in the world (2nd in Sri Lanka). He received the CVCD Excellence Award in 2018, the NSF Research Award for Scientific Excellence in 2018, and has been awarded the Presidential Award for Research seven times. Prof. Ekanayake is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), IET (UK), IESL (Sri Lanka), the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka, and the National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. He is also recognised as an IEEE PES Distinguished Lecturer (DLP). He is the only Sri Lankan to hold fellowships in all three major electrical engineering professional bodies. He has delivered keynote and invited speeches at many conferences in the UK, China, and India. Prof. Ekanayake has contributed to renewable energy generation and integration in the UK, Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Sri Lanka.
Prof. Ekanayake is a member of the Advisory Board of the IET Journal of Renewable Power Generation (2022–present). He is also a member of the Editorial Board of Springer Nature's *Scientific Reports* (2021–present), *Green Technology, Resilience, and Sustainability* (2021–present), the IET Journal of Renewable Power Generation (2015–2022), MDPI's *Electronics* journal (2022–present), *Wind Engineering* journal (2014–present), *IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion* (2007–2017), and the *Ceylon Journal of Science* (2016–2018 and 2022–present). He served as the Organising Vice Chairperson of the first IEEE PES conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (2012) held in Tianjin, China.
His research interests are multidisciplinary and cover the following areas:
- AI applications for smart grid and COVID-19
- Agrivoltaics
- Renewable energy generation and its integration, and smart grid applications.