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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Manatunga was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2004.[5]
References
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