Yasith Samaradivakara

Yasith Samaradivakara is a freestyle technologist, researcher, and engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with a background spanning Information and Embedded Systems, Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence. His research focuses on reimagining personal AI agents as lifelong companions for human growth. By combining behavioral AI, user modeling, and proactive interactions, he explores how intelligent systems can move beyond assisting with immediate tasks to helping people learn, develop, and thrive over time.

For more than a decade, he has worked across research labs, startups, and large technology companies, building and deploying hardware, software, and AI systems. His research has been published at leading venues, including CHI, UIST, EMNLP, NeurIPS, IUI, and Augmented Humans, and has received recognition from Meta Reality Labs Research, Google Research, and Prototypes for Humanity.

Please reach him at yasith@mit.edu.