Dr. Sudharman K. Jayaweera is currently a Program Director in the Emerging Technologies section of the Division of Innovation Technology and Ecosystems in the Directorate of Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, or TIP, at the National Science Foundation (NSF) with primary responsibility for the Advanced Telecommunications and Immersive Technologies. Dr. Jayaweera is also a tenured Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico and the Founder and President of Bluecom Systems and Consulting, an R&D startup company in Albuquerque, NM. His research expertise is in mobile wireless communications, space systems and satcom, machine learning, artificial intelligence, dynamic spectrum sharing and coexistence, spectrum and space situational awareness, statistical signal processing and information theory.

Dr. Jayaweera completed high school education in Sri Lanka at Rahula College, Matara, and was a science journalist at the Associated Newspapers Ceylon Limited (Lake House) in Colombo Sri Lanka. He received the B.E. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) with First Class Honors from the University of Melbourne, Australia and obtained his M.A. and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Princeton University. A senior member of the IEEE, he is also a Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI). During 2009-2011 he was a faculty fellow at the Kirtland Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RVSV), NM and was a National Academy of Sciences National Research Council (NRC) Senior Fellow at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Monterey, CA, in 2013.