Evidence of Esteem
Invited Speaker and Speaker in Conference Sessions
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)
“Soft Robots”, IEEE RAS Sri Lanka Robotics Meetup
Indo-Lanka Grant visit
Awards and Honours
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.
Professional Memberships
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.