- Faculty of Information Technology
- Department of Computational Mathematics
- Senior Lecturer Grade II
Contact information
Univerity of Moratuwa
Katubadda
Moratuwa
Sri Lanka
Teaching and Administrative Activities
Calculus & Statistical Distributions -Undergraduate -2021
Calculus -Undergraduate -2021
Operational Research -Undergraduate -2022
Statistical Distributions and Estimation -Undergraduate -2022
Statistical Quality Control -Postgraduate -2023
Parametric and Nonparametric Methods -Postgraduate -2023
Programming Essentials for Artificial Intelligence -Postgraduate -2025
Operational Research Techniques -Postgraduate -2025
Computational Statistics -Undergraduate -2025
Research Activities
M.Sc (Awarded): Modelling Spatiotemporal Rainfall Variability to Monitor Future Drought Conditions in Sri Lanka using Standard Precipitation Index, M.M.B. Samarasinghe, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2023
M.Sc (Awarded): An Empirical Analysis of Queuing Practices in Relation to Patient Satisfaction at the Outpatient Department of Teaching Hospital Kalutara, K.A.N.L. Karasinghe Arachchi, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2023
M.Sc (Awarded): A Statistical Analysis on the Factors Affecting End User Perception Towards Implementation of a Mobile-based Garbage Monitoring and Collection, I M.A. Nilukshika, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2024
M.Sc (Awarded): BuilderFormer: A Panoptic Segmentation Approach to Automatic Floor Plan Analysis Using Vision Transformers, M.D.P.P. Goonathilake, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2024
M.Sc (Awarded): Vehicle Crash Prediction Using Transformer Networks, D.K. Sekarage, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2024
M.Sc (Awarded), Assessing the Readiness of Sri Lankan Government Officials for the Adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence Technologies, R. L. Wijesuriya, , 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2024
M.Sc (Awarded), Exploring Long-run Effects of Macroeconomic Variables on Exchange Rate of Sri Lanka, I. D. C. D. Kumarasinghe, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2025
M.Sc (Ongoing) RetXplainer: Fine-Grained Explainable Reinforcement Learning & Transformer-Based Classification for Retinal Disease Dentification, A.S.N Jayasundara, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2025
M.Sc (Ongoing) GXREC:GNN based Explainable Personalized Complementary Item Recommendation System, D.G. Rubasinghe, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2025
M.Sc (Ongoing) Fabric Defects Detection: A Comparative Study of Classical and Modern Machine Learning Techniques, M.O.S. Sooriyandandara, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2025
M.Sc. (Ongoing) ForkyAI: GenAI-Powered Smart Food Recommender, S. Anas, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2025
M.Sc. (Ongoing) Orion: Agentic AI solution for Customer Care in E-Commerce, A. Ratnayake, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2025
M.Sc. (Ongoing) Multi-Agent System for Heterogenous Robot Coordination, N.R. Weerasinghe, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, 2025
Machine learning, Deep learning, Data Science, Optimization, Spatial Statistics, and Operations Research
Education and Professional Affiliations
PhD, 福利在线看 of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA ,2021 Computational Mathematics
Masters, 福利在线看 of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, ,2020 Mathematics ( Concentration in Data Analytics )
Bachelors, 福利在线看 of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka ,2015
IEEE(2024 To date)
American Statistical Association(2017 To 2021)
American Mathematical Society(2016 To 2021)
Career
Senior Lecturer Grade II, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, 2021-Present
Assistant Professor, 福利在线看 of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, 2024-2025
Graduate Teaching/Research Assistant, 福利在线看 of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, 2016-2021
Consultant, Statistical Consulting Center, 福利在线看 of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, 2017-2021.
Temporary Lecturer, 福利在线看 of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2015-2016.
Director Undergraduate Division, Faculty of Information Technology, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa, (January 2026- Present)
Director Quality Assurance Cell, Faculty of Information Technology, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa (January 2026- May 2026)
Research Coordinator, Department of Computational Mathematics, Faculty of Information Technology, 福利在线看 of Moratuwa (May 2025 - January 2026)
Scholarship Committee Member: 福利在线看 of North Carolina at Greensboro, Spring 2025
Honours and Awards
Graduate Teaching Assistantship (Received 2016)
North Carolina American Statistical Association Chapter Travel Award, (Received 2020)
Graduate School Summer Research Scholarship (Received 2019)
Merit-Based Helen Barton Scholarship (Received 2018)
Mina Weil Scholarship for Foreign Students (Received 2019)
Best Paper Award (Received 2024)
Best Presenter Award (Received 2022)
Nominated for the Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award (Received 2021)
Publications*
M.D.P.P. Goonathilake, A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja,".A Promptable Segmentation Approach to Automatic Floor Plan Analysis using Vision Transformers.",8th SLAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence,Sri Lanka,2025,
N. Tharmalingam, I. Arulananthan, R. Sharmini, A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja,".Fishing Location and Availability Prediction for Yellowfin Tuna in Sri Lanka.",9th International Conference on Information Technology Research,,Sri Lanka,2025,
A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja, H. Zhang,".A Novel Approach to Generating Axially Symmetric Random Processes on the Sphere.",International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics,USA,2024,
A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja, H. Zhang,".Karhunen Lo\'eve Expansion for the Axially Symmetric Processes on the Sphere Through Wavelet Galerkin Method.",4th Conference on Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation,USA,2020,
A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja, H. Zhang,".Karhunen Lo\'eve Expansion for the Axially Symmetric Processes on the Sphere..",The 16th Annual Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference,USA,2020,
A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja, H. Zhang,".Global Data Generation for Longitudinally Reversible Processes on the Sphere..",The 15th Annual Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference, 福利在线看 of North Carolina at Greensboro,USA,2019,
A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja, H. Zhang,".Non-consistency of MOM Variogram Estimators on the Sphere.", International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics,North Carolina, USA,2018,
K. Sekarage, A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja,".Predicting Vehicle Collision Using Transformer Network with Multi-Modal Data.",International Research Journal of Innovations in Engineering and Technology,Volume 9, Issue 1,2025
W.H. Jayasinghe A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja D.N. Balagalla,".Effects of Cucumber mosaic virus infection on aphid colony development.",Journal of Plant Protection Research,Vol. 62,2022
P. Sirisena, F. Noordeen, H. Kurukulasuriya, A.L.A.R.R. Thanuja, and L. Fernando,".Effect of Climate Factors and Population Density on the Distribution of Dengue in Sri Lanka: A GIS-Based Evaluation for Prediction of Outbreaks.",PLoS ONE,,2017