Yasantha initially pursued his higher education at the
University of Moratuwa in the field of
electronic engineering. He eventually received a scholarship offer to attend
Princeton University and left Sri Lanka in 1982 to pursue his remaining undergraduate education at Princeton. At this time, he coincidentally met Bezos, who later went on to found
Amazon.com. Bezos, during the talk, related that Yasantha had easily solved a mathematical problem that Bezos and his roommate could not solve. This led Bezos to give up on becoming a
theoretical physicist. Bezos and Yasantha, though, did not maintain a close connection after they left Princeton. Soon after Bezos had mentioned Yasantha's name in the September talk, people apparently went to search about him in the internet and several of them even sent emails and text messages to reach out to Yasantha, who revealed that most of the mail messages from anonymous persons repeatedly asked whether "Are you Jeff Bezos' Yoshanta’?" He confirmed that he received spam emails in his
LinkedIn inbox, as he initially had cast doubts and suspicions about whether someone had hacked his email. He developed and designed systems algorithms that could leverage AI in novel MedTech and medical imaging applications. He successfully implemented and improved techniques and methodologies that could improvise and enhance medical diagnosis. == References ==