Migara Liyanage is serving as an Associate Professor attached to the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Sri Lankan Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT). His area of expertise is Mechatronics. He is working on developing high speed industrial automation systems for product inspection and defect removal. His work involves high speed robotic manipulators, novel sensors and embedded systems using Field Programmable Gate Array technology.

He has authored a book and several publications in peer reviewed journals and international conferences. He is a member of Professional Professional Engineers and Geoscientists Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. Dr. Migara has been a visiting lecturer at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada and Faculty of Engineering, University of Jaffna.

• Doctor of Philisophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada
• Masters in Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand.
• Bachelors in Engineering (Hons), University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.