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Samitha Samaranayake completed his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in December 2014. He worked primarily on efficient algorithms for stochastic route planning and dynamic network flow allocation. After graduating, he served as a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information Decision Systems at MIT and was a member of the Future Urban Mobility group under the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). His research focuses on the analysis and control of networked cyber-physical systems with applications in Mobility-on-Demand. Samitha received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science (with a minor in Economics) and M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He also holds an M.Sc. in Management Science Engineering (Operations Research) from Stanford University. Before his academic career, he worked at Oracle Corporation in the database backup and recovery group, at Synopsys Inc. in the design for test (DFT) group, and on transit algorithms at Google. He has received the Dwight David Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship from the U.S. Department of Transportation, recognizing his contributions to the field.
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