Suranga's work is most important to the people whose lives it most directly impacts: those who face challenges functioning in our world due to sensory deficits in hearing or vision. More importantly, the technologies that Suranga has developed is not only applicable to those specific communities but potentially has a broader range of applications, due to his emphasis on “enabling”, rather than “fixing".

Suranga is a Senior Member of ACM and has taken on a number of roles, including General Chair of Augmented Human Conference in 2015. He was also appointed to many review and program committees including SIG CHI, TEI and UIST. With publications in prestigious conferences, demonstrations, patents, media coverage and real-world deployments, Suranga has demonstrated the potential of advancing state of the art technology in Assistive Human-Computer Interfaces. For the totality and breadth of his achievements, he has won many awards including MIT TechReview's Young Inventor Under 35 award (TR35) in the Asia Pacific region, the Outstanding Young Persons of Sri Lanka (TOYP) award, and INK Fellowship 2016.