Kosala Gunawardane is currently a senior lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Her research interests are analog circuit design, power electronic converters, supercapacitor-based, non-traditional applications and renewable energy and DC-microgrids. Gunawardane received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Electronics and Telecommunication engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2005. She completed her PhD degree at the University of Waikato, New Zealand in 2014 in Electronics Engineering.