Before joining SUTD, he was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Fluid Interfaces group, MIT Media Lab. As head of the Augmented Human Lab at SUTD, his vision is to create new interaction technologies that seamlessly integrate with users’ minds, bodies and behaviors providing them an enhanced perception. Suranga is best known for his work with the hearing and visually impaired communities, where the technologies he has developed not only helped people to overcome their impairments but also helped them to do things beyond a typical sighted or hearing person.