Dr. Rasika Jayatillake

SENIOR LECTURER – GRADE II

Department of Statistics
University of Colombo
Colombo 00300
Sri Lanka

Office: Department of Statistics
Work Phone: +94 11-259 0111
Work Fax: +94 11-259 0111
Email: rasika@stat.cmb.ac.lk

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD 2012

    PhD (Statistics)

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

  • MSc 2010

    MSc (Statistics)

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

  • BSc 2005

    BSc (Specialized in Statistics, First Class Honors)

    University of Colombo

  • BIT 2004

    BIT (External)

    University of Colombo School of Computing

  • CTHE 2016

    Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE)

    Staff Development Center, University of Colombo accredited by Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) (2017) of United Kingdom.

    Teaching

    • Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments
    • Applied Regression Analysis
    • Design of Experiments
    • Advanced Statistical Modeling
    • Statistical Decision Theory
    • Epidemiology
    • Medical Statistics
    • Experimental Design
    • Linear and Non-linear Models

    Research Interests

    • Biostatistics
    • Statistical bioinformatics and genomics
    • Bayesian statistics and Bayesian computations
    • Mixed models
    • Generalized linear models
    • Data Science