He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015[1] for "contributions to optimization using evolutionary and swarm algorithms".
Suganthan's main research contributions are in the areas of evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence, deep learning, big data, and pattern recognition.
Suganthan studied at Union College, Tellippalai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka, from primary school until year 12.
He scored the highest aggregate of 372 in the 1986 GCE Advanced Level in Sri Lanka and received a full scholarship to the University of Cambridge.
[2][3][4][5] He is a member of the editorial board of Evolutionary Computation (MIT Press), and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Information Sciences (Elsevier), Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) and International Journal of Swarm Intelligence Research.