Amita Manatunga

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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]

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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]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Amita Manatunga, Professor, Rollins School of Public Health , retrieved 2018-10-14
  2. 1 2 Amita Manatunga, PhD, Winship Cancer Institute , retrieved 2018-10-14
  3. Amita Manatunga at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. McKenzie, Martha (October 9, 2017), "Trio in biostatistics: 'Role models for us all'", Emory News Center, Emory University , retrieved 2018-10-14
  5. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2018-10-14