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
Research Clusters
Transportation engineering
"The transportation engineering research group is a multidisciplinary research unit that investigates sustainable and safe mobility covering land, water, and air transportation. Current research focuses on intelligent transportation systems which provide innovative services for road users enabling more coordinated, safer, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.
Possible mitigating options for traffic congestion in the urban road network and asset management systems focusing road rehabilitation and maintenance works are being studied
Areas: Modeling and simulation of Transportation systems, Traffic Engineering, Pavement materials and structural design, Traffic safety, Human Factors, Infrastructure engineering, Urban engineering"
PUBLICATIONS
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Household travel survey method for vehicle kilometers travel estimations: A case study in a developing country
Sarala Gunathilaka, Niranga Amarasingha, Sunanda Dissanayake, Malika Lakmali, “Transactions on Transport Sciences”
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Evaluation of Criteria for Setting Speed Limits to Sri Lankan Highways (Non-Built-up Areas)
Himaru Kumarage, Nadeesh Silva, Malika Lakmali Guruge, Vasantha Wickramasinghe, (13th Transport Research Forum - 2020)
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Evaluation of Criteria for Setting Speed Limits to Sri Lankan Highways (Built-up Areas)
Nadeesh Silva, Himaru Kumarage, Malika Guruge, Vasantha Wickramasinghe, (13th Transport Research Forum - 2020)
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Gap Acceptance of Crossing Pedestrians at Urban Unprotected Mid-block Crosswalks in Divided Highways
Vishma Diddeniya, Lakmali Guruge, Vasantha Wikramasinghe, (13th Transport Research Forum - 2020)
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The impact of temperature, population size and median age on COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreak
Kushan Tharuka Lulbadda, Dhanushka Kobbekaduwa, Malika Lakmali Guruge,, “International journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, In press (2020)” , pp. 231 - 236