Cedric Nishan Canagarajah (born 1966) is a British Tamil academic and the current president and vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester.
[7] After school he joined the University of Cambridge from where he received a BA honours degree in electronics and information sciences in 1989 and a Ph.D. in digital signal processing in 1993.
[12] Canagarajah has served on a number of national and international panels on research funding, governance and postgraduate education.
He acted as a technical consultant for several industrial partners including Sony, BT, BBC, Orange, Thales, Toshiba and the Metropolitan Police Service.
[13][14][15] He is part of the Universities UK advisory group to tackle racial harassment in higher education.