Chavan Malintha Tharu Fernando Chakravarthige

Malintha Fernando

I am a postdoctoral researcher with the division of optimization and systems theory with a background in computer science. My current research revolves around the following questions: (1) how can we effciently learn distributed RL policies to make decisions, under limited budget and profit stochasticity in routing settings (i.e., vehicle routing, prize-collection), and (2) How can we leverage tools from game theory to handle situations involving competing interests? (3) How can we best allocate profits among competing parties to improve the social-optimality (get as clost to the optimal solution, i.e, minimize the prize-of-anarchy?)

From a policy-making perspective it will allow predicting which areas will be underserved by the service providers in pursuit of profit. How much should we tax/incentivize the providers for fairer service distribution?

 I am being supervised by Prof. Silun Zhang, and Prof. Petter Ögren.

Education

• Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA (2023)

• M.S. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA (2021)

• B.Sc. (Hons.) University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2015)

You can find some of the software I have designed during my PhD at at github.com/malintha.