I am a third-year PhD student in Computer Science, conducting research under the guidance of Prof. Akshat Kumar at the School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University (SMU).

Research Interests

Reinforcement Learning, Safe-RL, Imitation Learning, Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization, Category Theory

News

  • 2024 December — Our paper titled “ShipNaviSim: Data-Driven Simulation for Real-World Maritime Navigation” has been accepted for publication at The 24th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS 2025), to be held in Detroit, Michigan, USA.
  • 2024 December — Our paper titled “Leveraging Constraint Violation Signals For Action Constrained Reinforcement Learning” has been accepted for publication at The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2025), to be held in Philadelphia, the USA.
  • 2024 August — I was offered Presidential Doctoral Fellowship in Computing at SMU, which is provided to exceptionally qualified students at SMU based on their research outcomes.
  • 2023 December — I passed my Ph.D. Qualifying Exam (QE).
  • 2023 September — Our paper titled “FlowPG: Action-constrained Policy Gradient with Normalizing Flows” has been accepted for publication at The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), to be held in New Orleans, USA.
  • 2022 August — I was offered admission to PhD in Computer Science at Singapore Management University, Singapore.
  • 2018 January — I graduated from University of Moratuwa, with a 1st class honours degree in Computer Science and Engineering.