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Dr Kasun Fernando Akurugodage
Lecturer in Mathematics

Summary

I am a mathematician, math educator, and a machine learning & data science enthusiast.

Previously, I was a Junior Visitor in Dynamical Systems at the Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa in Italy and was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in Canada where I conducted research in chaotic dynamical systems & Markov processes, and branched out into inferential statistics & machine learning.

Apart from research work, I am actively involved in the mathematical community as an educator. Due to my commitment to teaching, in 2020, I won the Award for Teaching Excellence by a Junior Member of the Mathematics Department, University of Toronto.

Also, since the beginning of my undergraduate studies, I have been contributing to many outreach projects in Canada, Sri Lanka, and the US with the hope of popularizing mathematics among the general public and promoting diversity in STEM.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Mathematics, University of Maryland                                                                                                  Dissertation: Higher Order Asymptotics for the Central Limit Theorem and Large Deviation Principles.
  • BSc in Mathematics, University of Colombo