Vindula Jayawardana
Research Scientist at Toyota Research Institute
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolVindula Jayawardana is a research scientist at Toyota Research Institute with 11 years of experience bridging academic rigor and production-focused research in autonomous systems and transportation. He completed a PhD at MIT where his work on large-scale cyber-physical simulation, generalizable learning, and autonomous driving gained broad media attention and led to publications and a patent-worthy industry impact. His background includes hands-on contributions to ride-sharing optimization and integer-programming matchmaking algorithms that improved service rates and real-world RL planning methods that boosted driving performance by over 120%. He has interned at NVIDIA on generative AI for traffic modeling and contributed to open-source identity tooling early in his career (leading a Google Summer of Code project and core Charon work). Based in Mountain View, Vindula combines deep algorithmic skills in C++/optimization with modern generative and multi-agent ML, often translating theory into measurable system gains. He is equally comfortable shipping low-level simulators as he is designing learning systems that generalize across diverse traffic scenarios.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Engineering Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Engineering Computer Science & Engineering at University of MoratuwaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCIMAGCE A/L Mathematics, GCE A/L Mathematics at Royal College Colombo
English, Sinhalese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
javas10
wso210
scim10
back-end-development10
java10
apidoc9
api9
json9
cordova-plugin6
phonegap-build6
android6
schema6
cordova6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wso2/charon
Nov 2016 - Feb 2017
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vindula primarily focused on modifying the `UserManager` interface and related classes within the `charon-core` module. They also fixed a bug related to JSON decoding in the context of listing operations using HTTP POST. The user's contributions included API changes, suggesting involvement in enhancing or refactoring the existing API functionalities. Furthermore, they were involved in fixing an issue related to group filtering.
Vindulamj/SCIM-2.0-Complience-Test-Suite
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:32 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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