Lasi Piyathilaka
Senior Lecturer, Displine Leader (Industrial Automation)
Mackay, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolLasi Piyathilaka is a senior lecturer and discipline leader in Industrial Automation with a PhD in Robotics from the University of Technology Sydney and over a decade of hands-on experience across academia and industry. He specializes in robotics, mechatronics, vision systems and machine learning, and has led award-winning projects developing inspection robots for water and sewer pipeline condition assessment. Lasi’s background spans real-time embedded systems, ROS-based autonomy, multi-robot field deployments and integration of sensors like RTK GPS and 3D cameras, gained at companies such as SwarmFarm Robotics and in large industry-funded research at UTS. He brings strong teaching credentials across multiple universities, mentoring research students while translating applied research into deployable engineering solutions. Notably, he has repeatedly combined low-cost sensing and practical engineering—such as vision-based localization for agricultural vehicles—with scalable software (C++, Python, ROS) to solve real-world problems. Based in Mackay, Queensland, he blends rigorous research rigor with pragmatic field experience in robotics and industrial automation.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Technology SydneyGithub contributions (5)
lasithaya/yolact
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
lasithaya/Robotics-lasi
Jun 2020 - Apr 2021
Code base for Robotics Studio 2 assessments
Contributions:1 push in 10 months
roboticsassessmentsbase-codegazebosim
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