Malintha Chakravarthige

Malintha Fernando

I am a Digital Futures Postdoctoral Fellow with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, department of Mathematics. I research decision-making in distributed multi-agent systems through the lense of ``stochastic prize-collecting games" --a selfish generalization of the travelling salesman problem (or more specifically the team-orienteering problem).

My research revolves around the following questions:

1) Under which conditions can we ensure the existance of pure Nash equilibria in such games?

2) What is the prize-of-anarchy (PoA) of this type of games, i.e., the optimality gap from an equivalent TOP? Can we learn incentives to steer the selfish agents toward a solution with lower PoA?

Before joining KTH, I briefly worked as an adjunct lecturer in machine learning at the department of Intelligent Systems Engineering of Indiana University, Bloomington, where I received my Ph.D. 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. I am actively maintaining MavSwarm (unfortunately, ROSNS3 is no longer maintained).