Suran Goonatilake
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| Born | Colombo, Sri-Lanka |
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Royal College Colombo University of Sussex University College London |
Suran Goonatilake, OBE is a Sri Lankan born British academic, entrepreneur and producer. He is a visiting professor at the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), with research activities in 'deep tech': artificial intelligence, machine learning, machine vision, robotics, and body-scanning.
As a PhD student at UCL, Goonatilake, with three fellow students, co-founded a machine-learning company called Searchspace (renamed Fortent and then acquired by Actimize) whose software is used by banks and the stock exchanges around the world. In May 2005 Searchspace was acquired by Warburg Pincus, a buy-out fund.
He is the co-founder of Bodymetrics, a company that grew out of body-scanning research at UCL and Kurv, a multi-touch interface, which can either be used as a musical instrument or a controller for VR and AR. Goonatilake is also the co-editor of two books, Intelligent Systems in Finance and Business and Intelligent Hybrid Systems.
Goonatilake did his undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex in Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
In 2005, he was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's birthday honours list for his services to Entrepreneurship.
Alongside his business ventures, Goonatilake was a founding Director of the Centre for Scientific Enterprise in 1999. A joint venture with the London Business School, it aimed to bring together and support young academics in the fields of scientific entrepreneurship.
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