Education
California Institute of Technology. Royal College, Colombo.
California Institute of Technology. Royal College, Colombo.
He was the Chief Executive Officer & Director of the Singapore–Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology (the "Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology" Centre), and prior to that the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He went on to gain his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy from the California Institute of Technology in 1976 and 1979 respectively. Abeyaratne was Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2008. In 2008 the Governing Board of the Singapore-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alliance for Research and Technology (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) Centre appointed him as its Chief Executive Officer/Director, a position he held through 2013.
The Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology Centre is Massachusetts Institute of Technology"s first, and to date only, Institutional Research Center located outside Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 1996 he was made a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics and later was elected as its President.
Born to L.B. "Malcolm" Abeyaratne, CCS former Secretary to the Treasury and Enid Abeyaratne, he was educated at the Royal College, Colombo where he won the Turnour Prize in 1967 and was Head Prefect in 1970. Thereafter he went on to gain his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sri Lanka in 1975 where he won the E.O.E. Pereira Gold Meda Abeyaratne received the MacVicar Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s highest award for education in 2000. The Quentin Berg Professorship in 2001. The Daniel C. Drucker Medal from American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2010, as well as its Fellowship in 1998.
