Nihal Kularatna is an electronics engineer with four and half decades of contribution to profession and research. As a graduate electronic engineer, in his early career (1976-1982) he was active in aviation ground electronics, installing and commissioning navigation and communication systems. Latter part of his early career (1982-1985), he was a diagnostic and maintenance engineer in Middle East for first generation digital telecommunications with early cellular systems. During this early career, he won several ICAO fellowships for equipment-oriented training at Federal Aviation Academy (USA), Northrop Wilcox (US), Miami international airport, CIT Alcatel-France and several other European organizations. During his mid-career (1985-2002) at Arthur C Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies, he was active in industrial research and developing continuous professional development type training programs for practicing engineers, and in 1999 he was appointed as the CEO of the organization. During the 1990s, he was an active consultant for a few US companies, including the Gartner Group and Technology Dynamics, NJ. He moved to New Zealand in 2002, to accept a senior lecturer position at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Auckland University. In 2006 he moved to University of Waikato. In 2011 he was elected as an affiliated member of the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA-USA). He won the NZ Engineering Innovator of the Year 2013. In 2014 he was appointed the Vice Chair of the IEEE DC Energy Efficiency Committee.Nihal was spotlighted as a Featured Engineer for US electrical engineering website EE Web. Read the interview. He is currently active in research in non-traditional supercapacitor applications, power converters, transient propagation and power conditioning. He has contributed over 160 refereed papers to learned journals and international conferences. His work on supercapacitor assisted (SCA) techniques such as SCALDO, SCASA and SCATMA culminated numerous US, NZ and PCT patents. For an overview of his research leadership in supercapacitor applications, now internationally known as SCA techniques, feature article in June 2020 IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine