Rohan Abeyaratne (Sinhala: රොහාන් අබේරත්න) is a Sri Lankan born American academic and engineer and the Quentin Berg Professor of Mechanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He was the CEO & Director of the Singapore–MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (the "SMART" Centre), and prior to that the Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
Thereafter he went on to gain his BSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Sri Lanka in 1975 where he won the E.O.E.
In 2008 the Governing Board of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Centre [1] appointed him as its CEO/Director, a position he held through 2013.
The SMART Centre is MIT's first, and to date only, Institutional Research Center located outside Cambridge, Massachusetts.