Dr Prathayne Nanthakumaran
Lecturer
PhD (Computing, Engineering and Mathematics)
A dedicated academic and researcher with more than seven years of experience in teaching mathematical sciences, data science and computing courses at prestigious institutions, including Western Sydney University, Australia. She earned her PhD from Western Sydney University in 2024 and holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in Statistics with First Class from the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dr. Nanthakumaran has contributed to several high-impact, international, and government-funded projects, addressing real-world challenges. She has received prestigious awards, including the 3-Minute Thesis Competition (2022), the People’s Choice Award for the same competition and runner-up of Visualize your Thesis competition (2022) at School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences, Western Sydney University and Best Lightening Talk – Environment and Sustainability at 2021 WSU Research Continuity Student Council Higher Degree Research Conference.
· Early Career Member of Statistical Society of Australia
· Member of Data-Driven and Accountable Solutions for Social Good and Sustainability Research Lab, Western Sydney University
· Lifetime Member of Sri Lanka Association for Advancement of Science (SLAAS)
· GStat (Graduate Statistician) accreditation from the Statistical Society of Australia (SSA)
MDS602 Mathematical Foundations for Data Science
MDS605 Machine Learning and Data Mining
MDS650 Data Science Capstone Project
MDS609 Business Intelligence and Analytics
MDS611 Data Visualization and Tools
MDS650 Data Science Capstone Project
MDS651 Industry Experience Project
COM121 Programming Fundamentals
Publications
Nanthakumaran, P. & Liyanage, L. (2023, December 11-13). Comparison of Interpolation techniques for Prolonged Exposure Estimation: A Case Study on Seven years of Daily Nitrogen Oxide in Greater Sydney [Paper presentation]. 21st Australasian Data Mining Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Wijesekara, L., Nanthakumaran, P. & Liyanage, L. (2022, December 5 – 7). Space and time data exploration of air quality based on PM10 sensor data in Greater Sydney 2015 – 2021 [Paper presentation]. 15th International Conference on Sensing Technologies, Sydney, Australia
Nanthakumaran, P. & Liyanage, L. (2021, July 16 – 18). Tree-based Models using Random Grid Search Optimisation for Disease Classification Based on Environmental Factors: A Case Study on Asthma Hospitalisations [Paper presentation]. IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Chendgu, China.
Nanthakumaran, P. & Tilakaratne, C. D. (2017). A comparison of accuracy of forecasting models: A studyon selected foreign exchange rates [Paper presentation]. 17th International Conference on Advances inICT for Emerging Regions, Colombo, Sri Lanka. DOI: 10.1109/ICTER.2017.8257789
- Nanthakumaran, P. & Tilakaratne, C. D. (2018). Financial Time Series Forecasting Using Empirical ModeDecomposition and FNN: A Study on Selected Foreign Exchange Rates. International Journal onAdvances in ICT for Emerging Regions (ICTer), 11(1).
Fields of Research
Statistical Data Science and Machine Learning, Spatial and Spatiotemporal Modelling, Applied AI for Healthcare, Environmental Sustainability and Social good, Data-Driven Methodologies for Informed Decision-Making and Knowledge Discovery