Dhammika Widanage was born on November 3rd 1983, Kuwait City, Kuwait. His research interests are in the fields of system identification, in particular the effects of nonlinearities on process models, multiple input multiple output systems and of control. He was awarded a Ph.D. in 2008 for research done in the Systems Modelling and Simulation Research Group and graduated with a First-Class Honours in Electronic and Communication Engineering in 2004 (BEng - Bachelor of Engineering) both from the University of Warwick, UK. From June 2008 he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the System Identification and Parameter Estimation Research Team in the Department of Fundamental Electricity and Instrumentation at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.