Sumith Gunasekera
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA
Biography
Sumith Gunasekera received the (Special Bachelor of Science) B.Sc.(Sp.) degree in Physics in 1995 from the University of Colombo, Colpetty, Colombo 03, District of Colombo, Western province, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (DSRSL) (formerly known as Ceilão (in Portuguese under their rule), Seylon (by Dutch under their rule), and Ceylon (by British under their rule), and the (Doctor of Philosophy) Ph.D. degree in Statistics in 2009 from the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV), Las Vegas, NV, United States of America (USA). Sumith joined the Department of Mathematics at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga TN, the USA in 2009, and has been an Associate Professor of Statistics since 2015. He is the author of many seminal statistical articles and is the recipient of several grants and awards. His research interests include statistical inference, reliability, survival analysis, the design of experiments under classical, Bayesian, and generalized frameworks.