Ashwin De Silva
PhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
I’m a PhD candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, advised by Joshua Vogelstein, Pratik Chaudhari, and Carey Priebe. My research focuses on learning from non-stationary data, culminating in a mathematical framework called prospective learning.
I received an M.S.E. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Johns Hopkins (2024) and a B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2020).
Recent news
- Jan 2026 Optimal control of the future via prospective learning with control accepted to L4DC 2026.
- Oct 2025 Prospective Learning in Retrospect won the student best paper award at AGI 2025.
- Jul 2025 Presented a poster at the NeuroAI conference (Allen Institute, Seattle).
- Jun 2025 Prospective Learning in Retrospect accepted to AGI 2025 (oral).
- Jun 2025 Simple Calibration via Geodesic Kernels accepted to TMLR.
Selected awards
- 2025 Best Student Paper Award, AGI 2025
- 2025 Alpha Eta Mu Beta membership
- 2024 MINDS Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
- 2023 Student Spotlight, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- 2022 Best Short Paper Award, ECCV OOD Workshop
- 2021 Second Runner-Up, IEEE VIP Cup at ICIP
- 2020 Gold Medal, University of Moratuwa
- 2020 Prof. Pathuwathawithana Memorial Prize
Selected publications
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Prospective Learning: Learning for a Dynamic Future
Ashwin De Silva, Rahul Ramesh, Rubing Yang, Siyu Yu, Pratik Chaudhari, Joshua T. Vogelstein
NeurIPS 2025 [pdf] -
Simple Calibration via Geodesic Kernels
Jayanta Dey, Haoyin Xu, Ashwin De Silva, Joshua T. Vogelstein
TMLR 2025 [pdf] -
The Value of Out-of-Distribution Data
Ashwin De Silva, Rahul Ramesh, Carey E. Priebe, Pratik Chaudhari, Joshua T. Vogelstein
ICML 2023 [pdf] -
A Joint Convolutional and Spatial Quad-Directional LSTM Network for Phase Unwrapping
Malsha V. Perera, Ashwin De Silva
ICASSP 2021 [pdf] -
Real-time Hand Gesture Recognition Using Temporal Muscle Activation Maps of Multi-channel sEMG Signals
Ashwin De Silva, Malsha V. Perera, Kithmin Wickramasinghe, Asma M. Naim, Thilina Dulantha Lalitharatne, Simon L. Kappel
ICASSP 2020 [pdf]
Teaching
- Fall 2025 EN.580.697 Biomedical Data Design (TA), Johns Hopkins University
- Fall 2020 EN 1060 Signals and Systems (Junior Lecturer), University of Moratuwa
- Spring 2020 EN 3030 Circuits and Systems Design (Junior Lecturer), University of Moratuwa
- Spring 2020 BM 2101 Analysis of Physiological Systems (Junior Lecturer), University of Moratuwa