In late 2018, I moved to Cardiff, Wales, to take up a faculty position at Cardiff University. Since then, I have been leading a group of researchers working on a broad range of topics around the Internet of Things.

I completed my primary and secondary education at DS Senanayake College, Colombo, one of the few schools in Sri Lanka, where the students belong to many cultures, religions, and ethnicities studies together. Later, I completed my undergraduate and postgraduate studies from Staffordshire University, UK and the University of Wales (at the time) remotely. I spent three months at the University of Cambridge as part of an International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU) study abroad program.

I was born in the late 1980s and raised in a town about 20km away from Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean southwest of the Bay of Bengal and southeast of the Arabian Sea. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is its legislative capital, and Colombo is its largest city and centre of commerce. As a British crown colony, the island was known as Ceylon; it achieved independence as the Dominion of Ceylon in 1948.