Background
Canagarajah was born in 1966 in Sri Lanka. His mother was a teacher.
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Nishan Canagarajah
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He was educated at Saint John"s College, Jaffna.
Career
After school he joined the University of Cambridge from where he received a Bachelor honours degree in electronics and information sciences in 1989 and a Doctor of Philosophy in digital signal processing in 1993. Canagarajah is married to Thabitha. 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 become 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.
