Professional

Grant, award, and recognition

Grants / awards received

  • Startup funds for a two-year postdoctoral research associate, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. $100k.

  • Google Cloud Platform Research Credit (project number: 397744870419), “Reconstruction of Agents’ Corrupted Trajectories of Collective Motion Using Neural Networks”. 15,210 GPU hours and 15,210 CPU hours from Google Compute Engine. PI: Kelum Gajamannage. (Oct. 2020 – Dec. 2021)

  • College-level Faculty Research Enhancement Grant, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi. “Machine Learning Methods for Geophysical Subsurface Applications”. PI: Mallikarjunaiah Muddamallappa and Co-PI: Kelum Gajamannage. (Nov. 2019 – Aug. 2020)

  • National Science Foundation (request number: DMS180007), “Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction With the Aid of Large-scale Matrix Completion”. 50,000 CPU hours from the XSEDE resource Jetstream. PI: Kelum Gajamannage. (Jan. 2018 – Jan. 2020)

  • A travel grant of $1077 received from Worcester Polytechnic Institute to attend the 2018 SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, USA. (July 2018)

  • A travel grant of $1552 received from Worcester Polytechnic Institute to attend the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. (July 2017)

  • A travel grant of $1144 received from Worcester Polytechnic Institute to attend the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 2017, Snowbird, UT, USA. (May 2017)

  • A grant received from Clarkson University to attend Teaching Effectiveness Conference 2015, State University of New York, Potsdam, NY, USA. (Oct. 24, 2015)

  • A travel grant received from Cornell University to attend the 4th New York Conference on Applied Mathematics, NY, USA. (Nov. 2013)

Grants in review

  • National Science Foundation, “Graph Sampling and Hadamard Autoencoders for Large-Scale Network Science”, $1.177M, PI: Anura Jayasumana, Co-PIs: Randy Paffenroth and Kelum Gajamannage. Dec. 22, 2021.

Recognition received

  • Honor B.S. degree in Mathematics with a second class upper division, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. (May 2007)

Student advising and mentoring

Advising postdocs

  • Yonggi Park, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Aug. 2020 - to date). Ph.D. is from Kent State University, OH, USA.

Advising graduate students

  • Mary Isang, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Aug. 2021 - to date)

  • Rolando Ramos, M.S. student in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Aug. 2019– May 2021) Thesis: A Robust 3D-Tensor Completion Method with Entry-Wise Bounds, https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/robust-3d-tensor-completion-method-with-entry/docview/2545559494/se-2?accountid=7084

Mentoring graduate students

  • Nasla Saleem. (Aug. 2020 - Dec. 2020)

  • Nitish Bahadur, Ph.D. student, Department of Data Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA. (Aug. 2016– Jan. 2018)

  • Chen Zou, M.S. student, Department of Data Science, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, MA, USA. (Aug. 2016– May. 2017)

Mentoring undergraduate students

  • Kye Powell, majored in Physics, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Aug. 2019 –Dec. 2019)

Services

University-wide services

  • Member: Library Committee, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Sep. 24, 2019− to date)

  • Judge: Poster competition, WPI Graduate Research Innovation Exchange, WPI, Worcester, MA, USA. (Feb. 7, 2019)

  • Judge: Poster competition, WPI Graduate Research Innovation Exchange, WPI, Worcester, MA, USA. (April 24, 2018)

  • Faculty Board Member, Faculty of Science and Technology, Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka. (April 2009− Aug. 2011)

Departmental services

  • Faculty Search Committee Member for the Data Science position in 2023, 2022, and 2021.

  • Member: Data Science MS Development Committee. Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Aug. 20, 2022 − July 30, 2023 )

  • Member: Mathematics Major/Minor Committee. Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Aug. 20, 2022 − July 30, 2023 )

  • Member: Data Science Education for Undergraduates Initiative Committee, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Sep. 25, 2019 − July 30, 2022)

  • Member: Data Science MS Development Committee, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Sep. 25, 2019 − July 30, 2022)

  • Member: Data Science Ph.D. Development Committee, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Sep. 25, 2019 − July 30, 2022)

  • Faculty Search Committee Member for the Data Science position in 2022 and 2021

  • Grader: 31st Annual Math Meet, WPI, Worcester, MA, USA. (Oct. 16, 2018)

  • Instructor for Calculus IV: 2018 WPI Pre-orientation Academic Sessions for the Connections Students, Worcester, MA, USA. (Aug. 13, 2018− Aug. 17, 2018)

  • Course Committee Member in Mathematics, Department of Science and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Uva Wellassa University, Sri Lanka. (April 2009− Aug. 2011)

Administrative services

  • Organizing committee: 6-th Coastal Bend Mathematics & Statistics Conference 2022, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (April 09, 2022)

  • Session Chair: Session 4, 6-th Coastal Bend Mathematics & Statistics Conference 2022, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (April 09, 2022)

  • Organizing committee: Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS) 2020, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Sep. 18, 2020-Sep. 19, 2020)

  • Session Chair: Session 8, Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS) 2020, Corpus Christi, TX, USA. (Sep. 18, 2020)

  • Session Chair: CP 9, 2016 SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA. (July 12, 2016)

  • Session Chair: CP 19, SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems 2015, Snowbird, UT, USA. (May 18, 2015)

Media coverage

  • AIP Publishing News. “Cow herd behavior is fodder for complex systems analysis”. (June 20, 2017)

  • Newswise, a newswire for journalists. “Cow herd behavior is fodder for complex systems analysis”. (June 12, 2017)

Reviewing activities (journals)

  • Pattern Recognition

  • Pattern Analysis and Applications.

  • Machine Learning Research.

  • Evolutionary Intelligence.

  • Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering.

Skills and competence

  • Programming Languages: MATLAB, Python (including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Pandas, etc.), SQL, R, SAS, C, C++, LINGO.

  • Applications: Minitab, Mathematica, Maple, TORA.

  • Markup Languages: LATEX, TEX, XHTML.

  • Operating Systems: Windows, MacOS, Unix/Linux.

  • Educational Software: PDF Annotator, Echo360, Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, WebAssign, BennerWeb, Workday, PeopleSoft.

Professional memberships

  • Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

  • Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).