About

He was a member of research staff in the Multimedia and Vision Lab within the Department of Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London in the UK, where he was involved with the EU-FP6 project aceMedia (January 2004 – June 2005).

He spent the second half of the ERCIM research fellowship at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France. He was affiliated with the "Ariana Project" (March 2003 – December 2003).

He spent the first half of the ERCIM research fellowship at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At CWI, he was affiliated with the "Signals and Images" theme. He was also involved in EU-FP5 project MASCOT (June 2002 – February 2003).

In 2002 he earned a PhD from the University of Bath, UK in electronic and electrical engineering for the thesis entitled "Lossless and nearly-lossless video coding". His work was sponsored by an overseas research studentship from Tandberg Television Ltd (formerly NDS Ltd, Southampton, UK).

He received a BE in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Adelaide, Australia in 1998. He was sponsored by an AusAid full studentship.

In Sri Lanka, he attended the Royal College, Colombo for the secondary education. Royal College, founded in 1835, is one of the oldest schools in Sri Lanka. Charith proudly congratulates his alma mater for celebrating her 175th anniversary this year!