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)

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)

Reviewing activities (journals)

• Pattern Recognition

• Pattern Analysis and Applications.

• Machine Learning Research.

• Evolutionary Intelligence.

• Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering.

Professional memberships

• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

• Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).