Yasasa Abeysirigoonawardena

I am an MSc student at University of Toronto supervised by Prof. Florian Shkurti working on improving simulation for robotics. Prior to this I worked as a Software Developer at Unity for 2 years working primarily on the creation of high fidelity LiDAR simulations in the Unity game engine.

During my undergraduate studies I worked on developing adversarial scenarios for autonomous driving under the supervision of Prof. Gregory Dudek and Prof. Florian Shkurti, currently my research is focused on extending this work.

Since I am doing my research in simulation, I am naturally interested in topics from computer graphics, robotics and physics simulation.

Publications

Generating Transferable Adversarial Simulation Scenarios for Self-Driving via Neural Rendering

Yasasa Abeysirigoonawardena, Kevin Xie, Chen Chuhan, Salar Hosseini Khorasgani, Ruiqi Wang, and Florian Shkurti

In CoRL23 and RSS Workshop, Towards Safe Autonomy: New Challenges and Trends in Robot Perception 2023

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  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {Generating Transferable Adversarial Simulation Scenarios for Self-Driving via Neural Rendering},
  author = {Abeysirigoonawardena, Yasasa and Xie, Kevin and Chuhan, Chen and Hosseini~Khorasgani, Salar and Wang, Ruiqi and Shkurti, Florian},
  booktitle = {CoRL23 and {RSS Workshop, Towards Safe Autonomy: New Challenges and Trends in Robot Perception}},
  year = {2023},
  front = {true},
  abbr = {RSSSafeAutonomy2023},
  preview = {rss2023.png},
  pdf = {rsssafeautonomy2023.pdf},
  website = {https://yasasa.me/advscenarios}
}

Generating adversarial driving scenarios in high-fidelity simulators

Yasasa Abeysirigoonawardena, Florian Shkurti, and Gregory Dudek

In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2019

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@inproceedings{abeysirigoonawardena2019generating,
  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {Generating adversarial driving scenarios in high-fidelity simulators},
  author = {Abeysirigoonawardena, Yasasa and Shkurti, Florian and Dudek, Gregory},
  booktitle = {2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {8271--8277},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE},
  front = {true},
  website = {http://cim.mcgill.ca/\~{}mrl/adversarial_driving_scenarios/},
  abbr = {ICRA2019},
  preview = {icra2019.png},
  pdf = {icra2019.pdf}
}