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Dr. Sameera Viswakula

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
Mobile Phone: +94713577290
Email: sam@stat.cmb.ac.lk

Academic & Professional Qualifications

  • PhD 2015

    PhD in Genomic Biostatistics

    Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

  • MSc 2011

    MSc in Statistics

    University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA

  • BSc 2008

    BSc in Statistics (First Class, Hons)

    University of Colombo

  • SEDA 2018

    SEDA certification in Teaching in Higher Education

    Staff and Educational Development Association of United Kingdom

  • CTHE 2018

    Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE)

    Staff Development Center, University of Colombo

Teaching

  • Computational Statistics Using R
  • Data Science
  • Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
  • Design of Experiments
  • Statistics for Nuclear Science
  • Statistics for Nursing

Research Interests

  • Computational Statistics
  • Probabilistic Modeling
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistical Bioinformatics
  • Biological Data Modeling