Other names C. N. Canagarajah Name Nishan Canagarajah | Occupation Academic Ethnicity Sri Lankan Tamil | |
Born 1966 (age 48–49) Sri Lanka | ||
Alma mater University of Cambridge | ||
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Professor Cedric Nishan Canagarajah (born 1966; known as Nishan Canagarajah) is a British Tamil academic and one of the pro-vice-chancellors of the University of Bristol.
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- Early life and family
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Early life and family
Canagarajah was born in 1966 in Sri Lanka. His mother was a teacher. He was educated at St. John's College, Jaffna. After school he joined the University of Cambridge from where he received a BA honours degree in electronics and information sciences in 1989 and a Ph.D. in digital signal processing in 1993.
Canagarajah is married to Thabitha. They have a daughter (Aarabi) and two sons (Sujan and Dheeran).
Career
Canagarajah joined the University of Bristol in 1993 as a research assistant. He was promoted to lecturer in 1994, senior lecturer in 1999 and reader in 2001. He became professor of multimedia signal processing in 2004. He was promoted to research director at the university's Faculty of Engineering in 2006 and head of Department of Computer Science in 2009. He became head of Merchant Venturers School of Engineering in 2010 before becoming dean of the Faculty of Engineering in 2011. He was appointed pro-vice-chancellor for research and enterprise in August 2014.