M. D. T. Attygalle
Senior Lecturer(Grade II), Head of the Department
Academic Degrees
- B.Sc. (Colombo)
- Dip. in Applied Statistics
- M.Sc. (Warwick)
- Ph.D. (Lancaster)
Current Teaching
- Basic Statistics in Business - IS1001
- Introduction to Statistical Modeling – IS1004
- Regression Analysis – ST3006
- Applied Regression Analysis – ST3072
- Statistics in Practice - IS 3002
Research and Professional Experience
- HRAC project of Asia Foundation (Local Consultant - Team Leader)
- PANDORA project - Sub project I (Team member) 2006-2007
- Local Consultant - Tourism project under TCP 2008
- SriLankan customer satisfaction survey- Project Leader 2010
Publications
- Ph.D. thesis submitted to Lancaster University, UK June 2006, titled "Model Coverage forward searching and multiple outlier detection"
- Co-Author of a paper presented at the IITC conference in 2006, titled “Distant Learning Initiatives in Sri Lanka with specific reference to ICT based learning issues and strategies.
- Paper presented at the International Sri Lankan Statistical Conference: Visions of futuristic Statistical Methodologies, 28th to 30th December 2004. “Model coverage – an improvement to the forward search algorithm” jointly written with Prof. Brain Francis. Full paper published in the conference proceedings.
- Paper presented at the 17th IWSM conference in Chania, Greece, 8-12th July 2002. “Model coverage, forward searching and multiple outlier detection” jointly written with Prof. Brian Francis Dr. Luca Scrucca. (full paper published in the conference proceedings)
- A presentation on “detecting outliers using forward searching” in the Stat Circle seminar series on the 22nd November 2002.
- Co-author, A Statistics book titled, ‘Moolike Sankyanaya (Basic Statistics)’ for the General Certificate Examination (Advanced level) and University first year students, 1996.
- A dissertation submitted for the Diploma in Applied Statistics titled “ A study of Repeaters Attending the Central Venereal Decease Clinic Colombo”. (1992)
- A dissertation submitted for the MSc. In Statistics, UK, titled “Survival of lung cancer patients”
Research and Consultancy
Special Degree Undergraduate Level & MSc Projects
Have supervised (and co-supervised) around 15 research projects during the past 5 years, and one of these student projects had won the best project award at the convocation.
Other
- Coordinator – MSc in Applied Statistics 2008, 2009
- Coordinator / Joint special degree programs of the faculty and the UCSC 2007-2010
- Involved in Curriculum design for undergraduates
- Senior Treasure, 'Stat Circle', University of Colombo (2004-2008)
- Chairperson, Science faculty Library committee
- Obtained the certificate in Teaching in Higher Education (CTHE) conducted by the Staff Development Centre of the University of Colombo. 1995.
- Obtained the SEDA teaching qualification from UK, 1995.
- Student Counsellor of the Faculty of Science 2005-2008
