Vindula Jayawardana

Email : vindula [AT] mit [DOT] edu

I am a first year PhD student in EECS at MIT. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Cathy Wu in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). Earlier, I completed my bachelors at University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka.

Before graduate school, I was a part of Mobility, Algorithms, and Society Lab at Cornell University and Data Science, Engineering & Analytics Research Hub of University of Moratuwa. I have also spent time at WSO2, Autochatic, PickMe, and Trancite24.

My research interests lie in the intersection of machine learning, intelligent transportation systems, and optimizations. I am particularly interested in studying gradual and complex integration of automation and AI into existing systems specifically in the mobility sphere.

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Recent News

September 2019 : I joined MIT as a PhD student in EECS
January 2019 : I am honored to receive Migara Rathnatunga Trust Award Certificate for Industrial Training for University Undergraduates–2017/2018

Publications

	Deriving a Representative Vector for Ontology Classes with Instance Word Vector Embeddings Vindula Jayawardana, Dimuthu Lakmal, Nisansa de Silva, Amal Shehan Perera, Keet Sugathadasa, Buddhi Ayesha INTECH , 2017
	Semi-Supervised Instance Population of an Ontology using Word Vector Embeddings Vindula Jayawardana, Dimuthu Lakmal, Nisansa de Silva, Amal Shehan Perera, Keet Sugathadasa, Buddhi Ayesha ICTer, 2017
	Synergistic Union of Word2Vec and Lexicon for Domain Specific Semantic Similarity Keet Sugathadasa, Buddhi Ayesha, Nisansa de Silva, Amal Shehan Perera, Vindula Jayawardana, Dimuthu Lakmal ICIIS, 2017
	Word Vector Embeddings and Domain Specific Semantic Similarity based Semi-Supervised Ontology Instance Population Vindula Jayawardana, Dimuthu Lakmal, Nisansa de Silva, Amal Shehan Perera, Keet Sugathadasa, Buddhi Ayesha ICTer Journal, 2018
	Legal Document Retrieval Using Document Vector Embeddings and Deep Learning Keet Sugathadasa, Buddhi Ayesha, Nisansa de Silva, Amal Shehan Perera, Vindula Jayawardana, Dimuthu Lakmal SAI, 2018
	Machine Learning Based Domain Specific Information Retrieval Accuracy Measuring System for Legal Domain Keet Sugathadasa, Vindula Jayawardana, Buddhi Ayesha, Nisansa de Silva, Amal Shehan Perera, Dimuthu Lakmal ICIIS, 2019