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RESUME Karunarathna B. Kulasekera
PERSONAL DATA
Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634-1907
Telephone: 864-***-****/1516 Fax: 864-***-****
e-mail: abp4ri@r.postjobfree.com
Web: http://www.clemson.edu/ces/departments/math/administration.html
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1988, Statistics
M.A., University of New Brunswick, Canada, 1984, Statistics
Postgraduate Diploma, University of Sri Lanka, 1982, Mathematics
B.Sc., University of Sri Lanka, 1980, Mathematics and Statistics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Clemson University, 1999-, Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University, 1994-1999, Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University, 1988-1994, Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences
HONORS
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
MEMBERSHIPS
Member, American Statistical Association
Member, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
1. Graduate Program Coordinator of Mathematical Sciences, 2005 -
Manage all aspects of the graduate program of the department (approximate budget:
$2 M/year).
Recruitment, evaluation, assistantship decisions and advising of graduate
students
Management of personnel issues related to the graduate program
Responsible for all graduate curriculum issues
Started the Bridge to Graduate Studies program for entering domestic
graduate students (06 ).
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Started the Mathematical Sciences Open House program for recruiting
domestic students with funding from the Graduate School (program size has
increased from 68 in 2004 to 125 in 2011).
Student Nominations: 2 best university RA awards; 5 best College (2 best
university ) TA awards.
2. Coordinator, Graduate School, Clemson University, 2007-2009.
Coordination of university graduate fellowships and graduate student awards
Creation of guidelines and nomination procedures
Optimal allocation strategy development based on followup data
Coordination of foundation and board of visitor graduate awards
Clemson University Graduate Council
Supervision of database creation & management
Input for application software and web based procedures
3. Department of Mathematical Sciences Administration (2005-).
Planning and strategy development
Graduate course o ering decisions and assisting in instructor selection decisions
Assisting in sta evaluations
Responsible for departmental SACS accreditation process: development &
analysis of outcome measures for graduate (1999- ) and undergraduate
(1999-2002) programs.
4. Liaison between Department of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Health
Sciences at Clemson University (2006-2009): Joint development of a certi cate
program; Consulting center initiative with the Greenville Hospital System;
Student/faculty collaboration coordination.
5. Liaison between Department of Mathematical Sciences and the National Dropout
Prevention Center (2010-): Development of early warning systems; Coordinate
collaborative research; Seeking joint funding.
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PUBLICATIONS
Books
Applied Nonparametric Statistics in Reliability (2011) by Gamiz, M.L., Kulasekera, K.B.,
Limnios, N., and Lindqvist, B.H., Springer Series in Reliability Engineering.
Journal Publications (Appeared/Accepted)
1. K.B. Kulasekera and Dong Ho Park, 1987, The Class of Better Mean Residual Life
at Age t0, Microelectronics and Reliability, 27(4), pp. 725-735.
2. Z. Feng and K.B. Kulasekera, 1991, Nonparametric Estimation of the Percentile
Residual Life Function, Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods, 20(1),
pp. 87-105.
3. K.B. Kulasekera, 1991, Smooth Nonparametric Estimation of Mean Residual Life,
Microelectronics and Reliability, 31(1), pp. 97-108.
4. K.B. Kulasekera and K.M. Lal Saxena, 1991, Estimation of Change Point in Failure
Rate Models, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 29, pp. 111-124.
5. K.B. Kulasekera and David W. Tonkyn, 1992, A New Discrete Distribution with
Applications to Survival, Dispersal and Dispersion, Communications in
Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 21(2), pp. 499-518.
6. K. Alam and K.B. Kulasekera, 1992, Truncation Error in the Expansion of the
Distribution of a Quadratic Form, Sankhya (B), 54(1), pp. 13-23.
7. K. Alam and K.B. Kulasekera, 1993, A Nonparametric Sequential Selection
Procedure, Sequential Analysis, 12(3 & 4), pp. 271-288.
8. K. Alam and K.B. Kulasekera, 1993, Estimation of the Quantile Function of
Residual Life Time Distribution, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,
37(3), pp. 327-338.
9. K.B. Kulasekera, 1994, Approximate MLE s of the Parameters of a Discrete Weibull
Distribution, Microelectronics and Reliability, 34, pp. 1185-1188.
10. K. Alam and K.B. Kulasekera, 1994, On the Error Term in Bahadur s
Representation of an Order Statistic, Communications in Statistics-Theory and
Methods, 23(12), pp. 3361- 3372.
11. K.B. Kulasekera, 1994, A Bound on the L1 -Error in a Nonparametric Density
Estimator with Censored Data, Statistics & Probability Letters, 23, pp. 233-238.
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12. K.B. Kulasekera and Peter R. Nelson, 1995, Choosing a Model from Among Four
Families of Distributions, (1995). Special Invited Paper for Recent Advances in
Life-Testing and Reliability, Ed. N. Balakrishnan. pp. 491-504.
13. K.B. Kulasekera, 1995, Comparison of Regression Curves using Quasi Residuals,
Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90, pp. 1085-1094.
14. K.B. Kulasekera and W.H. White, 1996, Estimation of The Survival Function from
Censored Data: A Method Based on Total Time on Test, Communications in
Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 25, pp.189-200.
15. K.B. Kulasekera and J. Wang, 1997, Smoothing Parameter Selection for Power
Optimality in Testing of Regression Curves, Journal of the American Statistical
Association, 92, pp 500-511.
16. K.B. Kulasekera and J. Wang, 1998, Bandwidth Selection for Power Optimality in a
Test of Equality of Regression Curves, Statistics & Probability Letters, 37, pp
287-293.
17. K.B. Kulasekera, 1999, Crossing Points of Failure Rates, Communications in
Statistics-Theory and Methods, 28, pp 87-104.
18. K.B. Kulasekera, 1999, Nonparametric Tests of Equality of Two Regression Curves,
Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, pp 541-546.
19. K.B. Kulasekera, 1999, Pseudo Residuals and Quasi Residuals, Encyclopedia of
Statistical Sciences, pp 615-616 & 629-630.
20. J. Wang, J. and K.B. Kulasekera, 1999, Uniform Convergence Rates of Regression
Estimators, Technical Report #670, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson
University.
21. K.B. Kulasekera, Calvin L. Williams and Amitha Manatunga, 2001, Smooth
Estimation of the Reliability Function, Lifetime Data Analysis, pp 415-433.
22. K.B. Kulasekera and J. Wang, 2001, A Test of Equality of Regression Curves using
G teaux Scores, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, pp 89-99.
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23. K.B. Kulasekera, 2001, Variable Selection by Stepwise Slicing in Nonparametric
Regression, Statistics & Probability Letters, pp 327-336.
24. K.B. Kulasekera and Peter R. Nelson, 2001, Graphical Methods of Estimation in a
Three Parameter Weibull Distribution, Special Invited Paper, Advances in
Reliability, pp 749-773.
25. K.B. Kulasekera and Colin Gallagher, 2002, Variance Estimation in Nonparametric
Regression, Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, pp 1373-1383.
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26. K.B. Kulasekera and Colin Gallagher, 2003, Testing the Equality of Two and Three
Dimensional Regression Surfaces, International Mathematical Journal, 76-100.
27. K.B. Kulasekera, C. Park, 2003, Analysis of Incomplete Data in Competing Risks
Among Several Groups, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, pp 11-20.
28. K.B. Kulasekera and J. Olaya, 2004, Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression
Model, Int. Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, pp 141-161.
29. John Foulk, D. McAliste and K.B. Kulasekera, 2004, Trash identi cation in mill
laydown. Proceedings of the Beltwide Cotton Conferences, National Cotton Council,
Memphis, TN, January 5-9, 2004, San Antonio, Texas. pp. 2402-2410.
www.cotton.org/beltwide/proceedings.cfm.
30. K.B. Kulasekera, C. Park, 2004, Robust Nonparametric Regression, Journal of
Statistical Theory and Applications, pp 125-133.
31. K.B. Kulasekera, C. Park and Ram Tiwari, 2005, Comparing Multiple Cause
Speci c Hazard Rates Among Several Groups, Special Invited Paper for Journal of
Statistical Planning and Inference, pp. 1718-1745.
32. K.B. Kulasekera and Zhao, Meng, 2006, Consistent Model Selection, Statistics &
Probability Letters, pp 520-530.
33. K.B. Kulasekera and W.J. Padgett, 2006, Bayes Bandwidth Selection in Kernel
Density Estimation with Censoring, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, pp
123-149.
34. John Foulk, D. McAliste and K.B. Kulasekera, 2006, Detecting the Cotton Trash
Particle Size distributions, Journal of Textile and Apparel Technology and
Management, Vol 5, pp 1-11.
35. Lin, Wei and K.B. Kulasekera, 2007, Uniqueness of a Single Index Model,
Biometrika, Vol 94, pp 496-501.
36. K.B. Kulasekera and Meng Zhao, 2008, A Pointwise Bayes Type Estimator of The
Survival Probability with Censored Data, Statistics & Probability Letters, Vol 78, pp
2597-2063.
37. K.B. Kulasekera and Meng Zhao, 2009, Minimax Risk of Linear Functionals under
L2 Loss, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol 139, pp 3160-3176.
38. K.B. Kulasekera and Lin Wei, 2010, Variance Estimation in Single Index Models,
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Vol 52, pp 201-219.
39. K.B. Kulasekera, Colin Gallagher and Qi Zheng, 2010, Local Adaptive Smoothing in
Kernel Regression Estimation, Statistics & Probability Letters, Vol 10, pp 540-547.
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40. K.B. Kulasekera and Lin Wei, 2010, Testing the Equality of Two Single Index
Models, The Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Vol 101, pp 1156-1167.
41. Kuruwita, C.N., Kulasekera, K.B. and, Padgett, W.J., 2010, On Boundary Bias
and Bandwidth Selection in Density Estimation with Censored Data, The Journal
of Statistical Planning and Inference, Vol 140, pp 1765-1774.
42. C. Kuruwita, K.B. Kulasekera and Colin Gallagher, 2011, Varying Coe cient Model
with Unknown Link, Biometrika, Vol 98, pp 701-710.
43. Dewei Wang and K.B. Kulasekera, 2012, Component Selection in the Varying
Coe cient Model, To Appear in The Journal of Multivariate Analysis.
44. Dewei Wang, Haiming Zhou and K.B. Kulasekera, 2012, Local Likelihood
Estimation for Group Testing Data, Accepted subject to a revision in The Journal
of Nonparametric Statistics .
45. June Luo and K.B. Kulasekera, 2012, Error covariance matrix estimation using
ridge estimator, To appear in Statistics and Probability Letters.
Submitted/ In preparation
1. C. Kuruwita, K.B. Kulasekera and Colin Gallagher, 2012, Comparison of Quantile
Regression Models, In preparation.
2. K.B. Kulasekera and Lin, Wei, 2012, Variable Selection in a Single Index Model,
Submitted for publication.
3. Qi Zheng, K.B. Kulasekera and Colin Gallagher, 2012, A Hybrid Adaptive LASSO,
In preparation.
4. K.B. Kulasekera and Lin Wei, 2012, Testing whether a model is Single Index, In
preparation.
5. Meng Zhao and K.B. Kulasekera. 2012, Local Linear Estimation with Doubly
Censored Data, In preparation.
6. K.B. Kulasekera, and Meng Zhao, 2012, A Data Based Penalty Factor for Linear
Model Selection using Penalized Least Squares, In preparation.
7. Dongmei Wang and K.B. Kulasekera, 2012, Varying Coe cient Model with
Unknown Link for Censored Responses, In preparation.
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SPONSORED RESEARCH
Funded
1. Risk Assessment for Dropouts, National Center for Dropout Prevention, Investigator,
(2011-2012), $21000 (per year).
2. Acquisition of Large-Memory, Many-Core Compute Node for Mathematical Science
Research, NSF, Co-PI $127,196 (Total) (2010-2011).
3. Enabling TV meteorologists to provide viewers with climate change-related science
education based on informal science education, NSF, Consultant, $8000, (2011-2012)
4. Acquisition of Parallel Computing Cluster for Large-Scale Computational Problems
in the Mathematical Sciences, NSF, Co-PI $140,570 (Total) (2006-2007).
5. Nonparametric Multiple Regression Techniques, National Cancer Institute,
National Institutes of Health, Principal Investigator, Responsible for $241,000
(2002-2006).
6. Optical Imaging of Breast Cancer, National Institutes of Health, Investigator, (PI:
H. Jiang, Dept. of Physics, Clemson University), Responsible for $8000 (2005-2006).
7. Centron Reliability, SchlumbergerSema-Utilities, Investigator, Responsible for
$2000 (PI: William R. Harrell, Department of ECE, Clemson University) (Summer
2003).
8. Issues in Multidimensional Nonparametric Regression, National Institutes of
Health, Principal Investigator, Responsible for $94,268, (1998-2001).
9. Nonparametric Smoothing Methods in A ordability Studies, O ce of Naval
Research, Investigator, Responsible for $85,000, (1997-1999).
10. Nonparametric Tests for Equality of Regression Curves, National Institutes of
Health, Principal Investigator, Responsible for $136,193, (1994-1997).
Pending
The Predictive Algorithms Toolkit and Heuristics Software (PATHS), IES, Co-PI,
Responsible for $502,528 (2012-2014)
GRADUATE STUDENT ADVISING
Doctoral Students
1. Haiming Zhao, Goodness of Fit in the PH model, Current.
2. Dewei Wang, Adaptive LASSO for Varying Coe cient Model, Current.
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3. Qi Zheng (Co-Advisor), Robust Adaptive LASSO, Current.
4. Dongmei Wang, Transformation Models Current
5. C. Kuruwita (Co-Advisor), Varying Coe cient Models, May 2011.
6. Meng Zhao, Model Selection in Regression, December 2007.
7. Wei Lin, Analysis of Single Index Models, May 2006.
8. Olaya, Javier, Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression, August 2000.
9. Wang, Jian, Issues in Nonparametric Regression Testing, December, 1997.
Masters Students
1. Z. Feng, (MS) A Study of a Smooth Nonparametric Estimator of Quantile Residual
Life Function,, 1989.
2. A. Arora, (MS) Sequential Selection Procedure Based on Pairwise Ranking, 1989.
3. Ernest A. Walker, (MS) Estimating a Distribution Function Based on Nomination
Samples, 1991.
4. William H. White, (MS) Estimation of the Survival Function from Censored Data:
A Method based on Total Time on Test,,1993.
5. Brian Schulte, (MS) Change Points in Regression, 1994.
6. Aaron A. Sumner, (MS) Detection of Change Points in Regression, 1996.
7. David Hitchcock, (MS) A New Discrete Distribution, May 1999.
8. Wei Lin,(MS) Analysis of Single Index Models, May 2002.
9. Wei Zhang, (MS) Variable Selection, May 2003.
10. Thomas Fisher, (MS) Single Index Models and Linear Models, May 2006.
11. Han Xiang, (MS) Inference for ROC Curves, May 2006.
12. C. Kuruwita (MS) Density Estimation with Censored Data, December 2006.
13. Jonathan Sauls (MS) Data Based Penalty Selection, December 2006.
14. Lei Zhao (MS) Penalty selection in Linear Models, August 2007.
15. Yicong Liu (MS) Selection of SCAD penalty factors, August 2008.
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16. Qi Zheng (MS) Local Adaptive Smoothing in Kernel Regression Estimation,
August 2009.
17. Jingjing Yang (MS) Local Likelihood Estimation in Proportional Mean Residual
Life, August 2009.
18. Yifang Li (MS) Adaptive LASSO for measurement error models, August 2010.
19. Dewei Wang (MS) Varying Coe cient Models, December 2010.
20. Yang Ni (MS) Local Linear Estimation of the MRL, May 2011.
21. Haiming Zhou, Adaptive Testing, Current
22. Jingshu Zhao, Sure Screening Methods, Current.
Doctoral and Masters Committees
12 Doctoral committees; Over 25 MS committees.
RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS
1. Fourth Biennial International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas
(2002). Title: Variable Selection in Nonparametric Regression by Covariate Slicing.
2. International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis (2003). Title: Variable
Selection in the Nonparametric Accelerated Lifetime Model.
3. Current and Future Trends in Nonparametrics (2007). Title: Comparison of Single
Index Models.
4. Invited Speaker, Department of Statistics, Michigan State University ( September,
2008).
5. Invited Speaker, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Florida
International University ( March, 2009).
6. Invited Speaker, Department of Biostatistics, University of Louisville (June, 2011).
7. International Statistical Conference, Sri Lanka (2011), Session Organizer and Invited
Speaker.
8. Southern Regional Council on Statistics (2011), Session Organizer.
TEACHING
Courses Taught (Beginning Fall 1990)
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1. MTHSC 101, Finite Probability, SU 91, SU 97
2. MTHSC 203, Elementary Statistical Inference, SU 93
3. MTHSC 301, Statistical Theory and Methods I, F-90,91,93,98 SP-93,94,97
4. MTHSC 302, Statistics for Engineers and Scientists, F-03, SP-04,05
5. MTHSC 400, Theory of Probability, F-92,95,96 SP-97
6. MTHSC 403, Introduction to Statistical Theory, F 02,SP 92,98
7. MTHSC 405, Statistical Theory and Methods II, F-96,97 SP-96
8. MTHSC 453, Advanced Calculus, SU 07,10
9. MTHSC 800, Probability Theory, SU 06,08
10. MTHSC 801, Linear Models, F-93,02,04,05,06
11. MTHSC 804, Basic Statistical Inference, F-02,07,08,10
12. MTHSC 806, Nonparametric Statistics, F-91,97,99,02,10
13. MTHSC 807, Applied Multivariate Analysis, F-92
14. MTHSC 808, Reliability and Life Testing,SS I 93, F-94,98 SP 01,03,09,11
15. MTHSC 881, Mathematical Statistics, F-90, SP-93,94,95,98,00,02,04,05,06,07,08
16. MTHSC 981, Analysis of Categorical Data, SU 92
17. MTHSC 981, Advanced Statistical Theory, SP-93,F-03,09
18. MTHSC 981, Smoothing Methods (Reading Course), F-95,00,02
New Course Development
1. Developed and taught a Probability and Statistics (301) course specially for
Computer Science majors at request from Department of Computer Science-1990
Spring.
2. Developed the course MTHSC 981, Analysis of Categorical Data, as an advanced
graduate level course for senior graduate students in 1992. This had a mixture of
theory and applications. SAS was used in various data analysis projects. The text
was supplemented by: Discrete Multivariate Analysis by Bishop, Fineberg and
Holland.
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3. Developed the Bussiness Statistics (MTHSC 309) course jointly with colleagues from
the department of Management-1995 Spring.
4. MTHSC 981, Advanced Statistical Theory: Designed for students who are preparing
for the fourth departmental examination. Texts: Lehmann and Casella (TPE) and
Lehmann (TSH)
5. Reading course MTHSC 981, Smoothing Methods: Designed for a few students who
are working on doctoral degrees. A collection of the latest papers and a few chapters
from Eubank(1988,1998) were covered.
6. Developed a breadth course in statistics (MTHSC 804) for the graduate students in
Mathematical Sciences with two colleagues.
7. Developed a graduate service course in statistics (MTHSC 884) for the graduate
students in Engineering and Sciences with two colleagues from the department of
Industrial Engineering.
UNIVERSITY AND PUBLIC SERVICE
Editorial Work
1. Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, 2004-
2. Board of Editors, Involve, 2008-
Committees
University & College
1. College of Engineering and Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee (2010-2011)
2. Clemson University Athletic Council, 2003 -
3. Search committee for the bioinformatics positions in Genetics/Biochemistry, 2005-06.
4. College of Engineering and Sciences Faculty Awards committee (2011, 2006)
Departmental
1. Chair, Departmental Tenure and Promotion Committee & Member,
2. Mathematical Sciences Council, 2002 -
3. Search committee for department chair position: 2002
4. Search committee for the bioinformatics position in Mathematical Sciences, 2005-06.
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5. Chair, Search committee for statistics position: 1998,2000,2002
6. Co-Adviser of new Statistics Graduate Students:1992-1993, 1996-2001
7. Adviser of all new Statistics graduate students:1993-1995,2003.
8. Local arrangements coordinator for ASA chapter activities: 1993-1994
9. Chairman of the Departmental Research Committee: 1992,1993
10. Representative to Departmental Graduate A airs committee:
1995,1996,1998,2000,2001.
11. Representative to Departmental Research committee: 1992,1993
12. Committee on Statistics courses for undergraduate Math majors: 1994
13. Committee on Graduate Courses in Statistics: 1995
14. Preliminary Examination Committee: 1989-present
15. Management Science Comprehensive Examination Committee: 1990-present
16. Coordinator, Annual joint colloquium series with the University of Georgia:
1993,1994
MISCELLANEOUS
Book Reviews
1. Reliability Improvement with Design of Experiments, 1995, Journal of the
American Statistical Association, pg. 397.
Refereeing
Refereed research papers for
1. Annals of Statistics
2. Journal of the American Statistical Association
3. Technometrics
4. IEEE Transactions in Reliability
5. Journal of Quality Technology
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6. Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
7. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics
8. Institute of Statistical Mathematics
9. Statistics and Probability Letters
10. Communications in Statistics-Theory and Methods
11. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
12. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
13. Journal of Nonparametriic Statistics
14. Metrika
15. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference
16. Statistica Sinica
Review Panels
1. Member, Review Panel to Evaluate a proposed doctoral program in Mathematics,
Texas State University-San Marcos, September 2007.
2. Invited Member of the Review Panel for Statistics, National Institutes of Health,
1998.
3. Multipredictor Function Estimation, 1997, National Science Foundation.
4. Computer Simulation and Analysis of System Availability and E ectiveness, 1995,
Louisiana Board of Regents and NSF.
Mentoring
Research mentor for four assistant professors at Clemson University (one promoted in 2006)
Community
Volunteer Soccer coach for Clemson Area Soccer Club, Clemson YMCA, City of Clemson
Recreation Department and Daniel High School JV team. Vice President, Clemson Area
Soccer Club (1997-98).
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References
1. Professor Robert L. Taylor
Chair
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
864-***-**** abp4ri@r.postjobfree.com
2. Professor J. Bruce Rafert
Provost
North Dakota State University
Fargo ND 58108-6050
701-***-**** abp4ri@r.postjobfree.com
3. Professor Ram C. Tiwari
Associate Director, O ce of Biostatistics
Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Ave., WO Bldg. 21
Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
301-***-**** abp4ri@r.postjobfree.com
4. Professo Dennis K.J. Lin
Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain
Department of Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
814-***-**** abp4ri@r.postjobfree.com
5. Professor Don Edwards
Chair
Department of Statistics
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803-***-**** abp4ri@r.postjobfree.com
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