Associate Professor I M Premachandra
BSc (Kel'ya) MSc (C'bo) MEng DSc (Tokyo)
Tel 64 3 479 8146
Room CO 5.48
Email i.premachandra@otago.ac.nz
Office hours: TBC
Associate Professor I.M. Premachandra joined the University of Otago as a Lecturer in 1991. Prior to this he served as a visiting Associate Professor at the University of New Hampshire, Whittermore School of Business and Economics (1989-1990), and as a Lecturer at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka (1975-1988).
Recent achievements include the Best Paper award at the IAENG International conference in Hong Kong, June 2009, for his paper ‘Transient and Asymptotic Analysis of Synchronisation Processes in Assembly-like Queues’, being an invited member of the conference committee and a guest editor of the special issue of the IMECS (International multi-conference of Engineers and Computer Scientists), Hong Kong, 2007-2010, and Best Teacher award in module 2 of the 2008 University of Otago MBA programme. He also served as the Head of the Department of Finance and Quantitative Analysis from 2006 to 2009.
Postgraduate student supervision
- Rasika Withanawasam (PhD) – detecting abnormal behaviours in financial markets
- Conrad Wong (MCom) – performance evaluation of US mutual funds
- Sasha Srivastava (MCom) – Sovereign Credit Default Swaps spreads
- Sologar Kunaal (MSc, Department of Anatomy) – Forensic Facial Approximation using Neural Networks
- Louisa Baillie (PGDipSc, Deptartment of Anatomy ) – a novel method of measuring facial soft tissue depths
Teaching
- TBC
Research interests
- Empirical finance
- Financial modelling
- Performance evaluation using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and its applications in Finance
- Probability theory
- Simulation
- Application of operations research techniques in Finance
Curriculum vitae
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