CAREER SUMMARY
Ms. Malika Lakmali Guruge is currently working as a Lecturer of Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology. She joined to the SLIIT as an Assistant Lecturer on September 2017. She attaches to the Mathematics Unit of Faculty of Humanities and Sciences in SLIIT. Before joining to the SLIIT, she served as an Instructor for six months in Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo in 2017. She is a committed, highly passionate and motivated lecturer with nearly 4 years of experience in academic field possessing good administrative and effective teaching methods that promote a stimulating learning environment.
She had her industrial training in Central Bank of Sri Lanka in 2015. In there, she got the opportunity to have an excellent experience in industry while actively contributing for numerous surveys conducted by Department of Statistics, CBSL.
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Reading M. Sc. in Operational Research at University of Moratuwa.
- B. Sc. (Special Degree) in Statistics - First Class, Faculty of Science, University of Colombo.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP
Research Interests
- Time Series Analysis
- Regression Analysis
- Multivariate Data Analysis
- Categorical Data Analysis
Memberships
MY PUBLICATIONS
Journal Publications
- Kushan Tharuka Lulbadda, Dhanushka Kobbekaduwa, Malika Lakmali Guruge, "The impact of temperature, population size and median age on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak"
- Vishma Diddeniya, Lakmali Guruge, Vasantha Wikramasinghe "Gap Acceptance of Crossing Pedestrians at Urban Unprotected Mid-block Crosswalks in Divided Highways"
- Nadeesh Silva, Himaru Kumarage, Malika Guruge, Vasantha Wickramasinghe "Evaluation of Criteria for Setting Speed Limits to Sri Lankan Highways (Built-up Areas)"
- Himaru Kumarage, Nadeesh Silva, Malika Lakmali Guruge, Vasantha Wickramasinghe "Evaluation of Criteria for Setting Speed Limits to Sri Lankan Highways (Non-Built-up Areas)"
- Sarala Gunathilaka, Niranga Amarasingha, Sunanda Dissanayake, Malika Lakmali "Household travel survey method for vehicle kilometers travel estimations: A case study in a developing country"
