Education
After a very difficult start, he completed bachelor"s degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National University of Singapore in Singapore.
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Suranga Nanayakkara
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As of 2014, he was the head of Augemented Human Laboratory and Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design. He is best known for his work on EyeRing and Haptic Chair. His research interests include Wearable Computing, Assistive Technology, Ubiquitous computing, Artificial Intelligence, Collective intelligence and Robotics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review honored Nanayakkara as one of the Innovators Under 35 for Asia Pacific Region 2014.
Suranga is from Piliyandala, which is situated in Colombo District in Sri Lanka. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from National University of Singapore.
Suranga spent half a year at University of Birmingham and half a year at University of Southern California under student exchange program Later he was a postdoctoral researcher with Pattie Maes’s Fluid Interfaces Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory
He joined Singapore University of Technology and Design as an assistant professor in 2011, and as of 2014 served as the head of the Augmented Human Laboratory
Suranga is best known for his work EyeRing - A finger-worn interface for seamless interactions Haptic Chair - Audio visual system to provide a more satisfying musical experience to deaf people and StickEars – a sound-based sticky note like device to make everyday objects more accessible. Among some of his other work, Suranga has invented SPARSH – a way to copy-paste data between digital devices. FingerDraw - way to extract colours and textures from nature and bring them into digital drawings.
Achievements
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Ten Outstanding Young Persons (Ten Outstanding Young Persons), Sri Lanka award 2015, by Joint Commission International Sri Lanka Young Innovator under 35 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology TR35) 2014 award, Asia Pacific region. Finalist, Singapore Challenge, Global Young Scientist Summit (GYSS’14). Interactive installation, iSwarm, selected for i Light Singapore 2014 Light show.
