Samitha Samaranayake

317 Hollister Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Prior to joining Cornell, I was a Postdoctoral Associate in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), hosted by Emilio Frazzoli. I was also a contributing participant at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics long program on New Directions in Mathematical Approaches for Traffic Flow Management in Fall 2015.

I completed my PhD in Systems Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley in 2014 advised by Alex Bayen, where I worked primarily on efficient algorithms for stochastic route planning and dynamic network flow allocation. During my PhD, I also spent time with the Google Traffic team in Zurich, Switzerland and the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in Sophia Antipolis, France. Prior to that, I was a Software Engineer in the System Technologies group at Oracle and a Masters student in Operations Research (MS&E) at Stanford. I did my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.