Nilesh Suriyarachchi
Ph.D. Candidate,
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
News
- [Jan 2023] Our paper "Optimization-based Coordination and Control of Traffic Lights and Mixed Traffic in Multi-Intersection Environments" has been accepted for publication in ACC 2023.
- [Jul 2022] Our paper "Multi-agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Shock Wave Detection and Dissipation using Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication" has been accepted for publication in CDC 2022.
- [June 2022] Our paper "GAMEOPT: Optimal Real-time Multi-Agent Planning and Control for Dynamic Intersections" has been accepted for publication in ITSC 2022.
- [June 2022] Our paper "Cooperative Bidirectional Mixed-Traffic Overtaking" has been accepted for publication in ITSC 2022.
- [May 2022] Received my Master of Science (Electrical Engineering) from the Graduate School of the University of Maryland.
- [May 2022] Our paper "Cooperative Multi-Lane Shock Wave Detection and Dissipation via Local Communication" has been accepted for publication in MED 2022.
- [March 2022] Received the "MRC Graduate Research Assistant Award" from the Maryland Robotics Center of the University of Maryland for the year 2022-2023. (MRC News Story)
- [February 2022] Received the "Outstanding Graduate Research Assistant Award" from the Graduate School of University of Maryland for the year 2021-2022.
- [January 2022] Our paper "Autonomous Vehicle Overtaking in a Bidirectional Mixed-Traffic Setting" has been accepted for publication in ACC 2022.
- [December 2021] Passed the PhD proposal exam and advanced to candidacy!
- [August 2021] Received the "Intelligent Transportation Society of Maryland Student Scholarship Award" for the year 2021-2022.
- [September 2021] Our paper "Real-time Priority-based Cooperative Highway Merging for Heterogeneous Autonomous Traffic" won the Student Best Paper Award at ITSC 2021. (ECE News Story)
- [August 2021] Our paper "Maximum-Entropy Progressive State Aggregation for Reinforcement Learning" has been accepted for publication in CDC 2021.
- [July 2021] Our paper "Shock Wave Mitigation in Multi-lane Highways using Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication" has been accepted for publication in VTC 2021. (ISR News Story)
- [June 2021] Our paper "Real-time Priority-based Cooperative Highway Merging for Heterogeneous Autonomous Traffic" has been accepted for publication in ITSC 2021.
- [May 2021] Presented our research on "Real-time Priority-based Cooperative Highway Merging for Heterogeneous Autonomous Traffic" at the KTH Stockholm Transportation Seminar. (ISR News Story)
- [January 2021] Our book chapter "Intelligent Highway Routing forHuman-Driven and Connected-and-Automated Vehicles" has been accepted for publication in Transportation Systems for Smart, Sustainable, Inclusiveand Secure Cities edited by Prof. Stefano De Luca.
- [September 2020] Our paper "Detection of Dynamically Changing Leaders in Complex Swarms from Observed Dynamic Data" has been accepted for publication in GameSec 2020.
- [November 2017] Our paper "3D Pose Tracking for GPS-denied TerrainRovers by Fast State Variable Extension and Enhanced Motion Model" won the Student Best Paper Award in ICCAS 2017.
- [June 2017] Our paper "3D Pose Tracking for GPS-denied TerrainRovers by Fast State Variable Extension and Enhanced Motion Model" has been accepted for publication in ICCAS 2017.