Designing immersive systems at the frontier of augmented reality & human interaction.

Dr. Yasas Sri Wickramasinghe is a Postdoctoral Researcher at HIT Lab NZ (University of Canterbury) and Senior Lecturer at Yoobee College of Creative Innovation, where he specialises in immersive technologies and human-computer interaction. He holds a PhD in Human Interface Technology from the University of Canterbury, with a dissertation on designing multiplayer location-based AR games that connect remote players and places.

His research is conducted in collaboration with industry partners including Sony Interactive Entertainment (Japan) and Niantic, Inc. Earlier in his career he co-founded NavitaZ VR Labs under the MIT Global Startup Labs programme (2015) and served as a Technical Lead at 99X Technology. He also led the development of Sri Lanka's first large-scale MOOC platform, which grew to over 150,000 registered learners. He writes regularly on immersive media and software engineering at ReadClub.me and Medium.