I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Computational Mathematics, University of Moratuwa. I earned my PhD in statistics from Monash University, Australia, under the supervision of Professor Rob J. Hyndman and Professor Kate Smith-Miles
I’m a fellow of OWSD, a UNESCO program, from 2021 to 2025. Additionally, I co-founded R-Ladies Colombo a local chapter of the R-Ladies Global Organization which aims to promote gender diversity in the R programming community.
My research revolves around Computational Statistics, Anomaly Detection, Time series analysis and forecasting and Statistical Machine Learning. I’m passionate about developing innovative methods and tools to analyze complex data. I am also strongly committed to developing open-source software tools to facilitate reproducible research. You can check out some of my projects here: Visit me on Twitter I post mostly about R, Python, statistics, data science, and science in nature.
From 2021 to 2024, I served as an associate editor for The R Journal. I’ve also contributed as an Associate Investigator at the Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS) from 2019 to 2021.
Thiyanga Talagala,PhD in Statistics, Monash University, Australia is my sister.
🎓 Education
🎓 PhD in Statistics, 2019, Monash University, Australia
🎓 BSc (Hons) Special Degree in Statistics, 2013, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
🎓 Batch first and Professor R A Dayananda Gold Medalist, 2013
🕵️ Research Interests
Computational statistics
Statistical machine learning
Machine learning interpretability
Anomaly detection
Time series analysis and forecasting
Streaming data mining
Responsible AI
Applied statistics
R programming
📧 Contact Information
Department of Computational Mathematics
University of Moratuwa
Bandaranayake Mawatha
Moratuwa, 10400
Sri Lanka
Email: priyangad@uom.lk
