{"id":8,"date":"2026-06-18T03:32:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-08-19T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T07:59:59","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;36&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;]<h1 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#000000\">Dr. Gayara Fernando<\/h1>\n[vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"small-text\"><strong>SENIOR LECTURER \u2013 GRADE II<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Department of Statistics<br \/>\nUniversity of Colombo<br \/>\nColombo 00300<br \/>\nSri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>Office: Department of Statistics<br \/>\nWork Phone: +94 11-259 0111<br \/>\nWork Fax: +94 11-259 0111<br \/>\nEmail: gayara@stat.cmb.ac.lk[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<h1 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Academic &amp; Professional Qualifications<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"ul-card \">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\"><div class=\"dy\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"degree\">PhD<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"year\">2025<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"description\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"what\">PhD in Statistics<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"where\">University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, USA<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"ul-card \">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\"><div class=\"dy\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"degree\">MSc<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"year\">2020<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"description\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"what\">MSc in Statistics<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"where\">University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, USA<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"ul-card \">\n\t\t\t<li class=\"\"><div class=\"dy\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"degree\">BSc<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"year\">2017<\/span><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"description\">\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"what\">BSc (Industrial Statistics) First Class Honors<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p class=\"where\">University of Colombo<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<h1 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#4b4b4b\">Teaching<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\"><li class=\"\">Data Science<\/li><li class=\"\">Data Visualization Techniques<\/li><li class=\"\">Artificial Intelligence<\/li><li class=\"\">Advanced Statistical Process Control<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]<h1 class=\"fac-title text-left\" style=\"color:#000000\">Research Interests<\/h1>\n<ul class=\"ul-boxed list-unstyled\"><li class=\"\">Deep Learning (Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing)<\/li><li class=\"\">Uncertainty Quantification with AI<\/li><li class=\"\">Machine Learning<\/li><li class=\"\">Bayesian Methods<\/li><li class=\"\">Statistics Modeling<\/li><\/ul>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;36&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;3\/4&#8243;][vc_column_text] SENIOR LECTURER \u2013 GRADE II Department of Statistics University of Colombo Colombo 00300 Sri Lanka Office: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.res.cmb.ac.lk\/statistics\/gayara-fernando\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}