Dr. Hiranya Suriyaarachchi is a professional engineer with over 15 years of industry and academic experience. Hiranya received the B.Sc. Engineering degree from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka in 2003 and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2008 and 2014, respectively.
He has been with TransGrid Solutions since 2010, where he was involved in a wide range of power system consulting services including power system studies, custom model development, commissioning, test witnessing, specification and bid review, RTDS, event analysis, and training.
Hiranya’s main area of specialization is in power system studies and creating dynamic equivalent AC system models for RTDS and PSCAD. He has led the development of a 20 rack RTDS model of one of the largest synchronized power systems in the world. Dr. Suriyaarachchi is actively contributing to a number of CIGRE and IEEE working groups.