Chirath Hettiarachchi
Research Fellow at The Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
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Top SchoolChirath Hettiarachchi is a Research Fellow at the Australian National University with nine years of experience translating reinforcement learning research into clinical and commercial applications. He developed a PhD-era RL-based Artificial Pancreas System (G2P2C) and maintains CAPSML and GluCoEnv tools for simulating and benchmarking glucose control algorithms, bridging academia, clinicians, and patients. His current postdoctoral work applies RL to closed-loop non-invasive brain stimulation for depression, complementing prior industry experience deploying ML systems in FinTech and healthcare startups. Comfortable across signal processing, control systems, and end-to-end product engineering, he has built mobile, smartwatch, and web platforms to collect physiological data for ML analysis. An awarded early-career researcher and former startup founder, he combines entrepreneurial grit with rigorous experimental engineering to push ML-for-health from simulation to real-world impact.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityCIMA Passed Finalist, Accounting and Business/Management, Top CIMA, CIMA Passed Finalist, Accounting and Business/Management, Top CIMA at CIMAPhysical Sciences, Physical Sciences at Ananda CollegeCIMA, CIMA, CIMA, CIMA at Achievers Lanka Business SchoolMSc (Research), Computer Science & Engineering, MSc (Research), Computer Science & Engineering at University of Moratuwa
English, Sinhalese
Github Skills (5)
diabetes8
control-systems8
reinforcement-learning8
deep-reinforcement-learning6
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RL4H/G2P2C
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
Reinforcement Learning based Artificial Pancreas Systems for Controlling Blood Glucose in Type 1 Diabetes.
Contributions:3 PRs, 126 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 5 months
reinforcement-learning-algorithmspythonartificial-pancreasreinforcement-learningartificial
chirathyh/ClardiaResearch
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:35 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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