Supporting staff 1 2 3 1. Mr. Roshan Perera 2. Ms. Tharaka Chandrarathne 3. Mr. G.R.D.P. Perera 66
Academic staff and research interests Dr. Sarath Banneheka (Head - Dept. <strong>of</strong> Statistics and Computer Science, Coordinator - PG Dip./M.Sc. Program in <strong>Applied</strong> Statistics, Senior Lecturer I) B.Sc. Special (Math.) (USJ, SL), M.Sc. (Math.)(Univ. <strong>of</strong> Landon, UK), M.Sc.(Stat.)(SFU, Canada), Ph.D. (Stat.)(SFU, Canada) Fields <strong>of</strong> Interest: Statistical Inference, Statistical Computing. Ms. G. S. Makalanda (Senior Lecturer I) B.Sc. Special (Math.)(USJ, SL), M.Sc.(Stat.)(USJ, SL), M.Sc.(Comp. Sc.)(UK) Field <strong>of</strong> Interest: S<strong>of</strong>tware Design and Implementation, Multimedia Systems, Internet Programming Mr. P. Dias ( Senior Lecturer I) B. Sc. Special (Math.)(USJ, SL), PG. Dip. (Stat.)(SL), M.Sc.(Stat.)(Aus.) Fields <strong>of</strong> Interest: <strong>Applied</strong> Statistics, Teaching and Learning Dr. Prasansa Kalukottege ( Senior Lecturer I) B.Sc. Special (Math.)(USJ, SL), PG Dip. (Stat.)(USJ, SL), M. Sc. (Math.)(Japan), Ph.D. (Math.)(Japan) Fields <strong>of</strong> Interest: <strong>Applied</strong> Statistics Dr. Ananda Edirisuriya ( Senior Lecturer I) B.Sc. Special (Math.)(USJ, SL), PG Dip. (Stat.)(SL), M.Sc. (Comp. Sc.)(China), Ph. L. (Comp. Sc.)(Sweden), Ph.D. (Comp. Sc.)(Sweden) Fields <strong>of</strong> Interest : Requirements Engineering Mr. Ananda Gamini (Senior Lecturer II) B.Sc. Special (Math.)(USJ, SL), M.Sc. (Comp. Sc.)(AIT, Thailand) Field <strong>of</strong> Interest: Artificial Intelligence and Theoretical Computer Science Dr. Gayan Meegama (Senior Lecturer II) B.Sc. Special (Comp. Sc.)(Colombo), M.Sc. (Comp.Sc.)(AIT, Thailand),Ph.D. (Comp. Sc.)(Singapore) Field <strong>of</strong> interest: Image Processing, Networks Dr. T.G.I. Fernando (Lecturer) B.Sc. Special (Math.)(USJ, SL), M.Sc. (Industrial Mathematics)(USJ, SL), M.Sc. (Comp. Sc.)(AIT, Thailand), Ph.D. (Intelligent Systems)(UK) Field <strong>of</strong> Interest: Ant Colony Algorithms, Genetic Algorithms, Multi Objective Combinatorial Optimization Mr. Chitraka Wickramarachchi (Lecturer) B.Sc. Special (Stat.)(USJ, SL), M.Sc. (App. Stat.) (SL) Field <strong>of</strong> Interest: <strong>Applied</strong> Statistics Dr. Ravindra. Lokupitiya (Senior Lecturer II B.Sc. (Colombo, SL), M.Sc.(Stat.) (Wyoming, USA) , Ph.D.(Stat.) (Wyoming, USA)Fields <strong>of</strong> Interest: Application <strong>of</strong> data assimilation techniques to carbon problem, computational statistics, Bayesian statistics, and spatial statistics Ms. Manjula Perera (Lecturer (probationary)) B.Sc. Special (Stat.)(USJ, SL)Field <strong>of</strong> Interest: <strong>Applied</strong> Statistics, Financial Mathematics Ms. Rangika Silva ( Lecturer (probationary) B.Sc. Special (Comp. Sc.)(USJ, SL)Field <strong>of</strong> Interest: Bioin<strong>of</strong>ormatics and Computational Biology Mr. Dilum Perera ( Lecturer (probationary) B.Sc. Special (Comp. Sc.)(USJ, SL) Field <strong>of</strong> Interest:Computer networks, Computer hardware 67