Prabhani
Kuruppumullage Don
Associate Research Professor; Assistant Director of Online Programs
Address:
316A Thomas Building
E-mail:
pxk919@psu.edu
pxk919@psu.edu
Office Phone:
(814) 863-3193
Prabhani
Kuruppumullage Don
Online Courses
About
I am currently a faculty member at the Statistics Department at Penn State. In addition to teaching and research, I also serve as the assistant director of online programs.
Before joining Penn State faculty, I served as an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Rhode Island. I earned my PhD in Statistics from Penn State in 2014, and completed my post-doctoral training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/ Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Education
- PhD in Statistics (Pennsylvania State University, 2014)
Thesis: Estimation & Model Selection for Block Clustering with Mixtures: A Composite Likelihood Approach
Co-advisors: Bruce Lindsay & Francesca Chiaromonte - M.Sc in Statistics (Pennsylvania State University, 2011)
Thesis: Evolution characteristics of ensemble forecasts through clustering
Advisor: Francesca Chiaromonte - B.Sc. in Statistics (University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2005), First Class Honors