Suranga Nanayakkara

Suranga is from Piliyandala, in Colombo District, Sri Lanka. Having received his secondary education from Royal College, Colombo,^[9][10][11] he completed bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the National University of Singapore in Singapore. He holds a PhD 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 MIT Media Lab.^[12][13]

• Since 2011, he has been directing the Augmented Human Lab.^[14]
• In 2018, he was invited to join University of Auckland as the first appointee of New Zealand Government's strategic entrepreneurial universities scheme ^[15]
• He joined Singapore University of Technology and Design as an assistant professor in 2011

Suranga is best known for his work EyeRing - A finger-worn interface for seamless interactions^{[2][3][4] [5]} Haptic Chair - Audio visual system to provide a more satisfying musical experience to deaf people^[6] and StickEars – a sound-based sticky note like device to make everyday objects more accessible.^[16][17][18] 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.