Biography:Amita Manatunga
Amita Kalyanie Manatunga is a Sri Lankan biostatistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University,[1] where she is also affiliated with the Winship Cancer Institute.[2] Her research interests include survival analysis, inter-rater reliability, environmental epidemiology, and medical imaging of the kidneys.[1]
Education and career
Manatunga graduated from the University of Colombo in Sri Lanka with first class honors in 1978.[1] She has master's degrees in statistics from Purdue University (1984) and the University of Rochester (1986).[1][2] She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Rochester in 1990. Her dissertation, Inference for Multivariate Survival Distributions Generated by Stable Frailties, was supervised by David Oakes.[3]
After finishing her doctorate, she joined the faculty at Indiana University as an assistant professor, and moved in 1994 to Emory.[1] At Emory, she is a long-term and frequent collaborator with two other women in biostatistics, Limin Peng and her former student Ying Guo.[4]
Recognition
Manatunga was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2004.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Amita Manatunga, Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, https://www.sph.emory.edu/faculty/profile/#!AMANATU, retrieved 2018-10-14
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Amita Manatunga, PhD, Winship Cancer Institute, https://winshipcancer.emory.edu/bios/faculty/manatunga-amita.html, retrieved 2018-10-14
- ↑ Amita Manatunga at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ McKenzie, Martha (October 9, 2017), "Trio in biostatistics: 'Role models for us all'", Emory News Center (Emory University), http://news.emory.edu/stories/2017/10/hspub_trio_in_biostats/campus.html, retrieved 2018-10-14
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2018-10-14
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