Evidence of Esteem

• Aug 2019 - “Soft Robots”, IEEE RAS Sri Lanka Robotics Meetup (public talk, 300+ attendance).

• April 2019 - “Industrial Robotics”, interactive session on “Future Directions of Advanced Robotics” organized by the Centre for Advanced Robotics (CAR), University of Moratuwa, (public talk, 100+ attendance).

• March 2018 - "Soft Robotics: Future of Robotics Technology?", Institute of Engineers Sri Lanka - IESL, (public talk, 100+ attendance).

• IEEE IROS Conference, 2016 - Oral - A soft three axis force sensor useful for robot grippers 

• IEEE IROS Conference, 2015 - Oral - Robust real time material classification algorithm using soft three axis tactile sensor: Evaluation of the algorithm.

• Media coverage 

- “Soft robotics: Future of robotics?”, newspaper article in Daily FT, Sri Lanka  (April 2018)

• 2017-2020 - Won Annual Research Awards for Outstanding Performance, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

• Dec 2018 - Received National Research Council (NRC) Merit Award for Scientific Publication, Sri Lanka

• Sep 2015 - A finalist in the International 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, The University of Queensland, Australia.

• Aug 2014 - Won KOKUSAITEKI Research award (Research Award for Promoting International Research Activities), Ritsumeikan University, Japan.

• 2011 – 2013 - Awarded Japanese Government Monbukagakusho Scholarship (MEXT) to follow MSc degree.

• Chartered Engineer (CEng), Member of IMechE, UK

• Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE RAS, and IEEE EMBS societies

• Associate Member, Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka (IESL) 

• 2018 – 2019 - Treasurer, IEEE Sri Lanka Section

• 2017 - 2018 - Assistant Secretory, IEEE Sri Lanka Section

• 2017 – 2021 - Executive Member, IEEE Sri Lanka section, IEEE RAS Sri Lanka chapter

• Journal Peer-reviews: IEEE transactions and journals: TRO, RA-L, Robotics and AI, Advanced Robotics, and top conferences: ICRA, IROS, RSS, AIM, EMBC, Robosoft, Robio.