Dr. Maduka Rupasinghe (Dr. Ru) joined Ashland University as an assistant professor of Mathematics in August 2012.
He received his B.S. degree in Business, Finance and Computational Mathematics from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. He went on to graduate school at the Missouri University of Science and Technology where he obtained his PhD in Mathematics with Statistics Emphasis.
His research interests lie in the areas of Statistics, especially, Time Series Analysis and Statistical consulting. Applications of bootstrap techniques in Time Series are his major research focus. As Statistics methodologies are applicable in many areas, he further offers a free Statistical Consulting service to the faculty and students of Ashland University.
He has taught various Mathematics and Statistics classes from College Algebra to Applied Engineering Statistics and has won two teaching awards as a graduate teaching assistant at the Missouri University of Science & Technology. He will be primarily teaching statistics classes, especially, Elementary Statistics, Intermediate Statistics, Probability and Mathematical Statistics. He also plans to design new Statistics courses for Ashland University students.