Dhammika Amaratunga

Honors  

I was recently made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in recognition of my work related to statistics in bioinformatics and for service to the profession.

Involvement with academia

Even though I am no longer directly associated with academia, I still try to maintain some relationship with academia.

• I've visited, by invitation, the National University of Singapore (April 2000) and Universiteit Hasselt in Belgium (April 2005).
• I've done some teaching (see below).
• I've been on the PhD dissertation committees of students graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University, Rutgers University, Temple University and Universiteit Hasselt (Belgium).
• I've given seminars at Princeton University, Rutgers University, Temple University, Emory University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Penn State University at York, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Montclair State University, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University.

Teaching

I've down a bit of teaching over the years and also organized some courses.

• Course Director and Faculty Member, PERI (PhRMA's Pharmaceutical Education and Research Institute) course on Statistics in Genomics and Biomarker Development (offered live in 2006 and as a webinar series in 2009).
• Instructor on Statistics in Genomics, PERI's Nonclinical Statistics course (2001).
• Various lectures, undergraduate courses and graduate courses at University of New Mexico, Rutgers University, Temple University, Limburgs University Centrum (now Universiteit Hasselt in Belgium), and University of Colombo.
• Several tutorials and courses based on the Microarray book (please see "Publications" tab). 

Service to professional organizations

I've been active in various professional organizations.

• Member, American Statistical Association (ASA).
• Member, Applied Statistics Association of Sri Lanka (ASASL).
• Member of PhRMA's Statistics Expert Team for Biomarker Qualification (2007-2009) and Member of PhRMA's Statistics Expert Team for Pharmacogenomics (2004-2006).
• Member of ASA's Committee on Award of Outstanding Application (2001-2003)
• President of the New Jersey Chapter of the ASA (1994/5) and Symposium Chair (1993/1994).
• Vice President and Program Chair of the Albuquerque Chapter of the ASA (1987).
• Program chair (preclinical) for the 24th Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (2001).
• Invited presenter at: ASA's Joint Statistical Meetings (USA) (2008,2007,2003,1999), European Nonclinical Statistics Conference (2008, 2006, 2005, 2004), International Chinese Statistical Association's Applied Statistics Symposium (USA), Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (USA), DIA Conference on Regulatory Expectations for Nonclinical Submissions (USA), PhRMA/FDA Genomics Biostatistics Workshop (USA), BioArrays2003 (USA), BASS (USA), Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Microarray Data Analysis Workshop (USA), The Royal Statistical Society Three Country Corner chapter symposium (Belgium), Statistics in the Sciences: Environmetrics, Genetics and Related Topics (Switzerland), DIA Workshop on Statistical Methodology in Nonclinical R&D (Ireland, France), International Sri Lankan Statistics Conference (Sri Lanka).

Interviews

I've been interviewed a couple of times regarding my professional activities.

• Bioarray News (January 11th 2002 issue)
• Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News (November 15th 2007 issue).