Scholar
Kasun Weerakoon
Google Scholar ID: -JsBJxUAAAAJ
Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Citations & Impact
Citations
633
H-index
12
i10-index
14
Publications
20
Co-authors
29
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship Award (2025)
- Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award from the University of Maryland Graduate School (2022–23)
- George Harhalakis Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate Student Award (2023–24)
- Published multiple papers at top robotics conferences including:
- - “BehAV: Behavioral Rule Guided Autonomy Using VLMs for Robot Navigation in Outdoor Scenes” (ICRA 2025)
- - “CoNVOI: Context-aware Navigation using Vision Language Models in Outdoor and Indoor Environments” (IROS 2024)
- - “VAPOR: Legged Robot Navigation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments using Offline Reinforcement Learning” (ICRA 2024)
- - “HTRON: Efficient Outdoor Navigation with Sparse Rewards via Heavy Tailed Adaptive Reinforce Algorithm” (CoRL 2022)
- - “TERP: Reliable planning in uneven outdoor environments using deep reinforcement learning” (ICRA 2022)
