Biography

Amutheezan Sivagnanam is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Houston.

He earned his Ph.D. in Informatics from The Pennsylvania State University in Summer 2025, where he was a member of the Applied Artificial Intelligence Lab. His doctoral research focused on applying artificial intelligence to solve combinatorial optimization problems in transportation domains. He also earned a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston in Summer 2022. He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2017.

Before his doctoral studies, he gained industry experience as a Software Engineering Intern at WSO2 Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, working with the Data Analytics Team from July to December 2016. He later worked as a Software Engineer at MillenniumIT Software (Pvt) Ltd, contributing to the Post-Trade Team from January 2018 to July 2019.

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