Udeshi Salgado

Udeshi Salgado

I’m a PhD researcher at Cardiff University. My research focuses on hybrid intelligence and vaccine demand forecasting in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). I’m particularly interested in combining domain knowledge with probabilistic models to improve public health supply chains.

🎓 Education

PhD in Business Management, Cardiff University, UK
Oct 2024 – Present
- Cardiff Business School (CARBS) EPSRC Studentship Award
- Research on global immunisation supply chains with hybrid AI
- Supervisors: Prof. Bahman Rostami‑Tabar, Dr. Thanos E Goltsos, Dr. Geraint Palmer, Dr. Xun Wang

BSc (Hons) in Statistics, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Jan 2019 – Aug 2023
- Second Class Upper Division, GPA: 3.64 / 4.00
- Dissertation: Detection of Tooth Anomalies Using AI (Grade: A+)

Diploma in Software Engineering, Esoft Metro Campus, Sri Lanka
Jan 2015 – Jul 2015
- Covered OOP, C#, Java, App Development

🔍 Research Interests

  • Vaccine supply chain forecasting
  • Hybrid intelligence (human + machine forecasting)
  • Time series analysis & probabilistic forecasting
  • Health data science and informatics
  • Inventory management in LMICs
  • Ethical AI and equity in global health systems