Unil Perera

A. G. Unil Perera is a Sri Lankan-born American physicist with an assortment of research interests in experimental condensed matter physics, especially semiconductor infrared detectors and applications. He has authored over 200 publications covering a variety of disciplines inside. He is a Regents’ Professor of Physics at Georgia State University, in Atlanta, Georgia. After his basic Education in Sri Lanka, he obtained his doctoral degree in (applied) physics from the University of Pittsburgh under the supervision of Darry D. Coon. During his graduate research, he developed a detector, which can detect infrared (IR) radiation without the use of any amplifiers. (Solid State Electronics, 29, 929, (1986). Then he introduced the concept of a two-terminal artificial (semiconductor) neuron (International Journal of Electronics, 63, 61, (1987),  a parallel asynchronous  processing based on artificial neurons (Int journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, 9, 1037, 1987),  Neural Networks 2, 143, (1989).( Phys. Rev. Lett., 58, 1139, (1987,   Neural Information Processing Systems", 201–210, Edited by Dana Z. Anderson, A. I. P., New York, (1988)).   Provided by Wikipedia