Curriculum Vitae
[Research], [Engineering]
Education
- Ph.D. in Informatics, Pennsylvania State University, 2025 (anticipated)
- M.S. in Computer Science, The University of Houston, 2022
- B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, 2018
Research Focus
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Optimization, Operational Research
Work experience
- 2019/09 - Present - Graduate Research Assistant
- 2018/01 - 2019/07: Software Engineer
- LSEG Technology (formerly MillenniumIT)
- Duties included:
- Introduced unit testing for libraries in Post Trade C++ Code.
- Performed database changes for Post Trade products for Singapore Stock Exchange and validated with Behavior Driven Development (BDD) testing approaches using Java.
- Worked on CI/CD of the Post Trade product with Python and Git.
- Practiced Agile-based development throughout the entire period of work.
- 2016/07 - 2016/12: Software Engineering Intern
- WSO2 Lanka PVT Limited
- Duties included:
- Implemented alert generation mechanism, which provides email and SMS when a disease spreads wide by analyzing the description.
- Implemented alert generation mechanism, which could determine the functional state of hospitals (i.e., number of beds available, number of Oxygen cylinders available) based on the admission and discharge messages.
Publications
Sivagnanam, A., Pettet, A., Lee, H., Mukhopadhyay, A., Dubey, A., & Laszka, A. (2024). Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Hierarchical Coordination for Emergency Responder Stationing. In Proceedings of the 41 st International Conference on Machine Learning, (ICML 2024)
Atefi, S., Sivagnanam, A., Ayman, A., Grossklags, J., & Laszka, A. (2023, May). The Benefits of Vulnerability Discovery and Bug Bounty Programs: Case Studies of Chromium and Firefox. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference, (pp 2209–2219), ACM
Sivagnanam, A., Kadir, SU., Mukhopadhyay, A., Pugliese, P., Dubey, A., Samaranayake, S., & Laszka, A. (2022, July) "Offline Vehicle Routing Problem with Online Bookings: A Novel Problem Formulation with Applications to Paratransit. In Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (pp. 3933-3939)
Ayman, A., Sivagnanam, A., Wilbur, M., Pugliese, P., Dubey, A., & Laszka, A. (2021). Data-driven prediction and optimization of energy use for transit fleets of electric and ICE vehicles. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), 22(1), 1-29.
Sivagnanam, A., Ayman, A., Wilbur, M., Pugliese, P., Dubey, A., & Laszka, A. (2021, May). Minimizing energy use of mixed-fleet public transit for fixed-route service. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 35, No. 17, pp. 14930-14938).
Talks
July 29, 2022
Talk at Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-22), Vienna, Austria
June 29, 2021
Talk at The 20th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2021), Virtual Workshop
May 18, 2021
Talk at Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-21), Virtual Conference
Projects
Workshops
Sivagnanam, A., Atefi, S., Ayman, A., Grossklags, J., & Laszka, A. (2021). On the Benefits of Bug Bounty Programs: A Study of Chromium Vulnerabilities. In Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) (Vol. 10).