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Education 1983     
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1972     

 Ph.D. Kansas State University
 Post Grad Diploma in Statistics University of Sri
 B.Sc. University of Colombo

Employment History

014 - Present Curators' Teaching Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, S&TProfessor, Mathematics & Statistics, Missouri S&T
2003 - 2014

1989 - 2003
Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistics,
1990 - 1991 Visiting Scientist, Biometric Unit, International Rice Research Inst.
1989 (Jan- June) Visiting Assistant Professor,QAIS Dept., Univ. Cincinnati
1983 - 1989 Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Statistics, S&T
1977 - 1983 Graduate Reseach/teaching Assistant, Kansas State University
11973 - 1977973-1977 Programmer, Department of cenus and Statistics, Sri Lanka

1972 - 1973

 

Instructor, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

 

Professional Appointments 2019 - Present Interim ChairDepartment of Mathematics & Statistics, Missouri S&T
2017-2019 Associate ChairDepartment of Mathematics & Statistics, Missouri S&T
2015 – Present Associate Director, Center for Statistical and Computational Modeling of Biological Complexity, Missouri S&T
1998 – 2019 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Mathematics &            Statistics, S&T
Awards and Honors

2016

 

Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association

2014

 

Missouri Governor’s Award for Excellence in Education

2014  

 


Curators’ Teaching Professorship, S&T

2013

 

Chapter Recognition Award, Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA

2010-2013

 

Excellence in Teaching Awards, in each of the four years, S&T

2002

 

College of Arts & Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award, S&T
2001  University of Missouri Faculty Performance Shares Plan awardee
1998       Outstanding Student Advisor Award, S&T

External Funding

 

Thirty four external grants totaling $3,740,406 received as PI or Co-PiI

Professional Service

2011 – 2012       
2011 – 2012  
     
2011                   
2010         
2009      
             2004 – 2006        1998 – 2002       
1997 – 1998       
1995 – 1997       
1994 – 1995     
1986 – 1987       
1983 – Presen
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Member, Nominations Committee (to the ASA Board), ASA
Chair, Council of Chapters Charter Committee
Past Chair, Council of Chapters Governing Board, ASA
Chair, Council of Chapters Nominations Committee, ASA
Chair, Council of Chapters Governing Board, ASA
Chair Elect, Council of Chapters Governing Board, ASA
Regional Vice-Chair, Council of Chapters Governing Board, ASA
Mid-Missouri Chapter Representative to the ASA
President, Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA
Vice-President, Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA
Secretary, Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA
Vice-President, Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA
Member, Mid-Missouri Chapter, ASA

 

Recent Publications

Archival Journals

Zhong, X and Samaranayake, V.A., (2016). Bootstrap-based Unit Root Tests for Higher Order Autoregressive Models with GARCH (1, 1) Errors. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation. <http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00949655.2016.1146720 >.

Gosavi A, Daughton W, Senoz O, Samaranayake V.A. (2016) Consumer Perception of U.S. and Japanese Automobiles: A Statistical Comparison via Consumer Reports and J.D. Power & Associates Data. International Journal of Engineering Management and Economics. In Press.

Que S, Awuah-Offei K, Samaranayake V. A. (2015). Classifying critical factors that influence community acceptance of mining projects for discrete choice experiments in the United States. Journal of cleaner production. 87:489-500.

Mohammadi, Mojtaba A, Samaranayake, V.A., and Bham, Ghulam, H. (2014).Crash Frequency Modeling using Negative Binomial Models: An Application of Generalized Estimating Equation to    Longitudinal Data. Analytic Methods in Accident Research, 2, 52-69.

Dinesh Kanigolla, Elizabeth A. Cudney, Steven M. Corns, and Samaranayake V.A. (2014). Project Based Learning for Quality and Six Sigma Education. International Journal of Six Sigma and Competitive Advantage, 8(1), 51-68.

Rupasinghe, M., Mkhopadhyay, P., and Samaranayake, V.A. (2014). Obtaining Prediction Intervals for FARIMA processes using the Sieve bootstrap, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 84, No. 9, 2044-2058 .

Al Ghamari, A., Murry, Susan, and Samaranayake, V.A. (2013). The Effects of Wearing Respirators on Human Fine Motor, Visual, and Cognitive Performance, Ergonomics, 56(5), 791-802.

Rupasinghe, M. and Samaranayake, V.A. (2012). Asymptotic properties of sieve bootstrap prediction intervals for FARIMA processes, Statistics and Probability Letters, 82, 2108-2114

Butukuri, R.R., V.P., Bheemreddy, V.P., Chandrashekhara, K., and Samaranayake, V.A. (2012). Evaluation of low-velocity impact response of honeycomb sandwich structures using factorial-based design of Experiments, Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials, 14: 339-361.

Mukhopadhyay, P. and Samaranayake, V.A. (2010). Prediction Intervals for Time Series: A Modified Sieve Bootstrap Approach, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, 39(03), 517 – 538.

Abstracts

Olbricht GR, Samaranayake VA, Injamuri S, Wang L, Fiebelman C, et al. (2014). Modeling Sleep and Wake Bouts in Drosophila Melanogaster. Annual Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture. Paper 4.

Thimgan, M.S., Injamuri, S. Fiebelman, C. Wang, L., Samaranayake, V.A., Olbricht. G. (2014). Relationship of sleep and wake bouts in Drosophila. Sleep, Abstract supplement, 37, A49.

Thimgan, M.S., Injamuri, S., Samaranayake, V.A., and Olbricht, G. (2013). Mathematical analysis of sleep and wake transitions in Drosophila melanogaster, Sleep Abstract supplement 36 A57.

Proceedings

Jayawardhana A, Samaranayake V.A. (2015). Lower Tolerance Bounds in Accelerated Life Testing for the Weibull Distribution. In JSM Proceedings, Quality and Productivity Section, Alexandria, VA, American Statistical Association. 2015; :1509-1516.

Eshebli A, Samaranayake V.A. (2015). Bootstrap-Based Confidence Intervals in Partially Accelerated Life Testing Under the Generalized Exponential Distribution. In JSM Proceedings, Quality and Productivity Section, Alexandria, VA, American Statistical Association. 873-883.

Samaranayake V. A, Liu J. (2015). An Investigation of the Day-of-the-Week Effect on the Volatility and Returns of Individual S&P 500 Sectors. In JSM Proceedings, Business and Economic Statistics Section, Alexandria, VA, American Statistical Association. 2991-3001.

Jornaz A, Samaranayake V.A.(2015). A Multi-step Approach to Modeling the 24-hour Daily Profiles of Electricity Load Using Seasonally-Varying Splines. In JSM Proceedings, Business and Economic Statistics Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 3785-3790.

Thilakaratne M, Rupasinghe M, Samaranayake V.A. (2014).Sieve Bootstrap-Based Prediction Intervals for Autoregressive Processes with GARCH Innovations. In JSM Proceedings, Business and Economic Statistics Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 3284-3296.

Zhong X, Samaranayake V.A. (2014). Bootstrap-Based Unit Root Tests for Higher Order Autoregressive Models with GARCH (1, 1) Errors. In In JSM Proceedings, Business and Economic StatisticsSection. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. :3760-3769.

Jayawardhana A, Samaranayake V.A. (2014). Predictive Density Estimation in Accelerated Life Testing for Lognormal Life Distributions. In JSM Proceedings, Quality and Productivity Section. Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. 2325-2338.

Thilekaratne, M, and Samaranayake, V.A. (2013). Bootstrap-Based Prediction Intervals for conditional Heteroscedastic Models with Seasonnally Varying Unconditional Variance. ASA Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association (Montreal, Canada),2967-2981.

Zhong, Xiao and Samaranayake, V.A. (2013). A Sieve Bootstrap-Based Test for Multiple Unit Roots. (2013). ASA Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association (Montreal, Canada), 3312-3322.

Prediction Intervals for ARIMA Processes: Sieve Bootstrap Approach. (2012). ASA Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association (Alexandria, VA),1078-1090

Rupasinghe, M. and Samaranayake, V.A. (2012). Obtaining Prediction Intervals for FARIMA Processes using the Sieve Bootstrap,Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, 3283-3293.

Alferink, A. and Samaranayake, V.A. (2011). Lifetime predictive Density Estimation in Accelerated Degradation Testing for Lognormal Response Distributions with Arrhenius Rate Relationship. Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, American Statistical Association, 4373-4385.