K.B. Kulasekera

Professor
Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
University of Louisville
United States of America

Professor Mathematics
Biography

K.B. Kulasekera joined the Department of Bioinformatics & Biostatistics in July 2012 as the chair and a tenured full professor. Previously he was full professor and the graduate coordinator in Mathematical Sciences at Clemson University where he started his career as an assistant professor in 1988. Kulasekera have published numerous refereed research papers in statistics journals. Some of the research has been supported by the NIH, ONR and the NSF.

Research Intrest

Survival Analysis, Multivariate Methods and Regression, Nonparametric Inference, Smoothing Methods, Varying Coefficient Models, Variable and Model Selection and Group Testing

List of Publications
Zheng Q, Gallagher C, Kulasekera KB. Adaptive penalized quantile regression for high dimensional data. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 2013 Jun 30;143(6):1029-38.
Zheng Q, Gallagher C, Kulasekera KB. Adaptively weighted kernel regression. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. 2013 Dec 1;25(4):855-72.
Kuruwita C, Gallagher C, Kulasekera KB. Testing equality of nonparametric quantile regression functions. International Journal of Statistics and Probability. 2014 Jan 6;3(1):55.