Open to research roles
Robotics researcher. I work on vision-language-action models, reinforcement learning and physical AI.
University of Moratuwa Ex-research intern, NUS MARMoT Lab Sri Lanka
Research
Policies that take in camera images and a written instruction and output motor commands directly. I want to understand how well these models ground language in what a robot actually sees, and how far they transfer to a new robot with little data.
Read moreLearning control from trial and error. The part I find most interesting is getting a policy trained in simulation to work on a physical robot, and whether pretrained models can cut down how much interaction that takes.
Read moreMost of my hands-on work so far. Perception, state estimation and control running on real hardware, plus the electronics underneath. This is the foundation I want learned policies to sit on.
Read moreSelected work
ECCV 2024 · Reproduction
Mixture density networks that forecast multimodal pedestrian trajectories with calibrated uncertainty, for autonomous applications that must plan around people.
Final-year project
A semi-humanoid receptionist robot for crowded, multi-floor buildings that rides conventional elevators without any robot-specific hardware.
Autonomous racing
Landmark-based Extended Kalman Filter SLAM for a differential-drive robot navigating cone-marked race tracks, mapping and localizing simultaneously.
CVPR 2025 · Implementation
Paper implementation of momentum-aware planning for end-to-end autonomous driving, keeping planned trajectories temporally consistent.
Robofest 2024 · 5th place
Team Quanta's maze-solving robot. It completed the 16×16 maze at SLIIT Robofest 2024 and placed 5th in the university category, using flood fill on an STM32 with PID loops for distance and heading fed by IR, gyro and encoder readings.
Research experience
Dec 2024 to May 2025
Singapore
National University of Singapore · MARMoT Laboratory
PCB design · Robot control · Embedded systems · Research
Dec 2023 to Sep 2024
Sri Lanka
Qubebots · Xfly drone platform
Computer vision · Drones · Localization · Embedded
Contact
If your lab or team works on VLA models, reinforcement learning or physical AI, I would be grateful to hear about any research positions or collaborations. Please feel free to write to me.
