Curriculum Vitae
Piyadi Gamage Jayani Lakshika
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Monash University, Australia
Email: jayani.piyadigamage@monash.edu, jayanilakshika76@gmail.com
Website: https://jayanilakshika.netlify.app/
GitHub: https://github.com/JayaniLakshika
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayani-lakshika-9a0297162
Education
PhD candidate - Statistics
Faculty of Business & Economics, Monash University, Australia
Thesis title: Interactive and Dynamic Graphics for Studying Non-linear Dimension Reduction Models of High-dimensional Data
July 2022 —
B.Sc. (Honours) in Statistics
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka
Thesis title: Computer Vision System For Automated Medicinal Plant Identification
January 2017 — December 2020
Diploma in Computer System Design (DCSD)
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Sri Lanka
March 2016 — March 2017
Certificate in Business Accounting
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Sri Lanka
December 2015 — September 2016
Appointments Held
Teaching Associate
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Australia
January 2023 —
Teaching Assistant (Temporary Instructor)
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka
July 2021 — July 2022
Associate Data Analyst
Vizuamatix (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
January — November 2021
Trainee Data Analyst
Vizuamatix (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
July—December 2020
Research Internship
Vizuamatix (Pvt) Ltd, Sri Lanka
Industrial training as a fulfillment of the degree B.Sc. (Honours) in Statistics
January — June 2020
Publications
Papers
Lakshika, J. P., & Talagala, T. S. (2021). Computer-aided Interpretable Features for Leaf Image Classification. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08077
Conference proceedings
Young Scientists’ Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (YCMR) abstract publication (ISSN 2815-0260)
October 2021
\(17^{th}\) applied science research poster and abstract publication (Page 74)
September 2021
Conference presentations and contributed talks
Visualise your fitted non-linear reduction model in high-dimensional space
UseR! 2024, Salzburg, Austria
2024
Visualising how non-linear dimension reduction warps your data
Faculty of BusEco Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, Monash University, Australia
2024
Visualise your fitted non-linear dimension reduction model in the high-dimensional data space
Victorian branch of the Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society (VicANZIAM) 2024 (RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia)
2024
Visualize your fitted non-linear dimension reduction model in the high-dimensional data space — Invited speaker
Bioinformatics Seminar, Monash University, Australia
2024
With non-linear dimension reduction, when can you believe what you see?
Australian Statistical Conference (ASC 2023) (Wollongon, Australia)
2023
Viewing the model from a non-linear dimension reduction in the high-dimensional data space — Invited speaker
12th-Conference of the Asian Regional Section of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC-ARS 2023) (Wollongon, Australia)
2023
Higher studies webinar — Invited speaker
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka
2023
Computer Vision System for Automated Medicinal Plant Identification — Invited speaker
NUMBATs meeting, Monash University, Australia
2022
Computer Vision System for Automated Medicinal Plant Identification — Invited speaker
Estadistica 2021, the Annual Statistics Day organized by the Statistics Society of University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
2021
Computer Vision System for Automated Medicinal Plant Identification — Invited speaker
Vx Tech Talk 2021, Vizuamatix Pvt. Ltd, Sri lanka
2021
Statistical machine learning for medicinal plant leaves classification — Presentation
17th Applied Statistics Conference, Solvenia
2021
Statistical machine learning for medicinal plant leaves classification — Speed-talk
Young Scientists’ Conference on Multidisciplinary Research (YSCMR 2021) which is organised by the Young Scientists’ Association of the National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka (NIFS-YSA)
2021
Visiting
A/Prof. Ursula Laa
At the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU University), accompanied by Prof. Di Cook, Prof. Eun-Kyung Lee, and A/Prof. Natalia da Silva (one week)
July 2024
R packages
airpurifyr: Provide an interface to scrape air quality data from
cardinalR: Collection of data structures.
quollr: Tool to visualise how non-linear dimension reduction warps your data
olympics: Provide an interface to scrape Olympic data from
MedLEA: Software which contains information about medicinal plants in Sri Lanka
DSjobtracker: Software which contains what skills and qualifications are required for data science related jobs
Teaching
Tutor
[ETC5510] Introduction to data analysis
2024
[ETC1010] Introduction to data analysis
2024
[ETC3250] Introduction to machine learning
2023 — 2024
[ETC5250] Introduction to machine learning
2023 — 2024
[ETC5521] Exploratory data analysis
2023
[STA 326 2.0] R Programming
2022
[STA 213 2.0] Inferential Statistics
2022
[STA 214 1.0] Nonparametric Statistics
2022
[STA 215 2.0] Sampling techniques
2022
[STA 115 1.0] Elements of Sampling
2022
[STA 113 2.0] Descriptive Statistics
2022
[STA 114 2.0] Probability and Distribution Theory I
2022
[STA 224 2.0] Regression Analysis
2021
[STA 225 2.0] Design of Experiments
2021
[STA 226 1.0] Data Analysis II
2021
[STA 123 2.0] Probability and Distribution Theory II
2021
[STA 124 2.0] Data Analysis I
2021
[STA 125 1.0] Statistical Communication
2021
Awards
Monash Business School Prestigious International Conference Award
Monash University, Australia
2024
Co-Funded Graduate Research Scholarship, Monash Business School
Monash University, Australia
2022 — 2026
Diploma in Computer System Design (DCSD) — Gold medalist
National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Sri Lanka
2017
OCTAVE competition — Finalists
Research abstract competition organized by OCTAVE company, Sri Lanka
2021
Stat Circle quiz competition — Winners
Team member of the winners at inter university quiz competition organized by the Stat Circle Faculty of Science, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
2018
Academic Service & Community Engagment
UseR! 2024 Session Chair
Conference in Salzburg, Austria
2024
ASC Session Chair
Australian Statistical Conference in Wollongong, Australia
2023
WOMBAT tutorials — Helper
Monash University, Australia
2022
Statistical Consultancy Service — Department representative
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka
2020
Professional Memberships
Statistical Society of Australias (SSA)
2022–
R-Ladies Melbourne
2022–
Statistics society
University of Sri Jayewardenepura (USJ), Sri Lanka
2017–2022