[3] In March 2019, she was acknowledged as one of twelve female change-makers in Sri Lanka by the parliament, coinciding with International Women's Day.
[13] She was one of nine international women technologists awarded a Caroline Haslett Memorial Fund bursary to assist their attending the conference.
[14] During her time in Britain, she married Sivasegaram[14] in December 1968, who was reading for a PhD at Imperial College, London and on a similar scholarship from the Sri Lankan government.
[9] The couple had a son during this time and returned home in April 1970 when the child was six months old to complete the 5 year compulsory public service in Sri Lanka.
[9] In 1978 Dr. Sivaprakasapillai Sivasegaram was appointed as the first female Chief Structural Engineer in Sri Lanka and was transferred to the Designs Office in Colombo.
She served as one of the prominent engineers in the country when open economic policies were introduced in 1977 by the then President Junius Richard Jayawardene.
[9] Sivasegaram and her family let Sri Lanka following the 1983 Black July riots and she took up a contract in 1985 in Barbados as a consultant to the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation UK.
In March 2019, she was acknowledged as one of twelve female change-makers in Sri Lanka by the parliament, coinciding with International Women's Day.