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Dr Dilini Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige

Dr Dilini Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige

Senior Research Associate
¹ú²ú¾«Æ· Canberra
School of Systems & Computing

Dilini is a senior postdoctoral research associate at the School of Systems and Computing of University of New South Wales (¹ú²ú¾«Æ·)ÌýCanberra. She received her PhD in Computer Science from ¹ú²ú¾«Æ· in 2021 and B.Sc. in Computer ScienceÌýwith a first class (Honours) from University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri LankaÌýin the year 2016.Ìý Her research interests expand across the fields of artificial intelligence, machine learning, evolutionary computing, multi-agent systems, and serious games.

  • Book Chapters | 2024
    Samarasinghe D; Barlow M; Lakshika E, 2024, 'Competitive Collaboration forÌýComplex Task Learning inÌýAgent Systems', in , pp. 325 - 337,
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Samarasinghe D, 2023, 'Counterfactual learning in enhancing resilience in autonomous agent systems', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 6, pp. 1212336,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yang S; Barlow M; Townsend T; Liu X; Samarasinghe D; Lakshika E; Moy G; Lynar T; Turnbull B, 2023, 'Reinforcement Learning Agents Playing Ticket to Ride-A Complex Imperfect Information Board Game With Delayed Rewards', IEEE Access, 11, pp. 60737 - 60757,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Yang S; Samarasinghe D; Arukgoda A; Abpeikar S; Lakshika E; Barlow M, 2023, 'Automatic Recognition of Collective Emergent Behaviors Using Behavioral Metrics', IEEE Access, 11, pp. 89077 - 89092,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Samarasinghe D; Barlow M; Lakshika E; Kasmarik K, 2022, 'Grammar-based autonomous discovery of abstractions for evolution of complex multi-agent behaviours', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 73,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Samarasinghe D; Barlow M; Lakshika E, 2022, 'Flow-Based Reinforcement Learning', IEEE Access, 10, pp. 102247 - 102265,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Barlow M; Hene Kankanamge E; Kasmarik K, 2021, 'Exploiting Abstractions for Grammar-Based Learning of Complex Multi-Agent Behaviours', International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 36, pp. 6273 - 6311,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Barlow M; Lakshika E; Kasmarik K, 2021, 'Grammar-Based Cooperative Learning for Evolving Collective Behaviours in Multi-Agent Systems', Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 69, pp. 101017,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Barlow M; Lakshika E; Lynar T; Moustafa N; Townsend T; Turnbull B, 2021, 'A Data Driven Review of Board Game Design and Interactions of Their Mechanics', IEEE Access, 9, pp. 114051 - 114069,
  • Conference Papers | 2021
    Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Barlow M; Lakshika E; Kasmarik K, 2021, 'Task Allocation in Multi-Agent Systems with Grammar-Based Evolution', in Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2021, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Japan, pp. 175 - 182, presented at International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2021, Japan, 14 September 2021 - 17 September 2021,
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Lakshika E; Barlow M; Kasmarik KE, 2018, 'Automatic Synthesis of Swarm Behavioural Rules from their Atomic Components', in Aguirre H (ed.), GECCO 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Kyoto Japan, pp. 133 - 140, presented at GECCO 2018, Kyoto Japan, - ,
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige D; Walisadeera AI; Goonetillake MDJS, 2016, 'User-Friendly Ontology Structure Maintenance Mechanism Targeting Sri Lankan Agriculture Domain', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9790, Beijing, China, presented at Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2016, Beijing, China, 04 July 2016 - 07 July 2016,

Fellow | Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI)ÌýÌý2019Ìý:ÌýÌý


Finalist | Annual Humies Awards 2018 and 2022 :ÌýÌý Ìý


Associate Fellow | Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)ÌýÌý2021


Top 100 Young Researchers from Computer ScienceÌý | Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2023 :ÌýÌý

Member | ACM Future of Computing Academy :Ìý

Assistant Conference Coordination Officer for ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial IntelligenceÌý(SIGAI)

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