Charith Fernando
Sri Lanka
CAREER Enrolled in September 2008; Completed master’s degree in September 2010 /
Enrolled in September 2010; Completed doctoral degree in September 2013
I entered KMD at the first fall batch intake in 2008. Before Joining KMD, I majored in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science Enginering, and Robotics Engineering. During my KMD life, I belonged to Reality Media Project (Masters) and Embodied Media Project (PhD.). During KMD life, I learned the important the collaborative work, multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary teamwork. Also, I was able to improve my Japanese, product design skills, idea pitch and presentation skills. After finishing my PhD study, I wanted to bring my work to the next level and decided to Join KMD faculty as a Senior Assistant Professor. I lead the Telexistence project (inside & outside KMD) as the first step of bridging the gap between research work and industrial collaborations. After 4 years I decided to spin-off my work into my own start-up and achieve my dream goal.
Today, I work as Chief Technological Officer (CTO) of Telexistence Inc. (https://tx-inc.com/) where I manage a very talented engineering team sharing the same interest of industrialize telexistence technology to dramatically change lives, organizations, and society. One of our main streams of business involves creating business opportunity by lowering cost of human transportation and action of human actually being there. I have gained a lot from KMD, this someday I hope to collaborate and support KMD with my assets.
(This article was written in March 2018.)