Scholar
Vindula Jayawardana
Google Scholar ID: 3ZqqJosAAAAJ
MIT
Citations & Impact
Citations
379
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
20
Co-authors
19
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Paper "IntersectionZoo" accepted at ICLR 2025
- "Mitigating Metropolitan Carbon Emissions with Dynamic Eco-driving at Scale" accepted at TR-C
- "Model-Based Transfer Learning for Contextual Reinforcement Learning" accepted at NeurIPS 2024
- "Generalizing Cooperative Eco-driving via Multi-residual Task Learning" accepted at ICRA 2024
- "Model-free Learning of Corridor Clearance: A Near-term Deployment Perspective" accepted at IEEE T-ITS
- Multiple papers published at NeurIPS, ITSC, TRC30, and other venues
- Named a Rising Star in Cyber-Physical Systems (2024)
- Recipient of IEEE ITSS WiE/YP Workshop and Annual Forum Fellowship (2023)
- Awarded the 2022 Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award from MIT EECS
- Research featured in MIT News, NewScientist, Anthropocene Magazine, NPR, and others
Research Experience
- Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute (since July 2025)
- Interned at NVIDIA (Summer 2024)
- Conducted research at Toyota North America
- Affiliated with the Mobility, Algorithms, and Society Lab at Cornell University
- Participated in the Data Science, Engineering & Analytics Research Hub at University of Moratuwa
