I M Premachandra

Biography

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, and University of Sri Jayawardenapura, 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, 2007-2014, Associate Editor of Sri Lankan Journal of Applied Statistics (since 2012), member of the editorial board (since 2012) of Theoretical Economic Letters, and the 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. 

Research Interest

  Empirical finance and Financial Modelling Performance evaluation using DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and its applications in Finance Applied Probability theory Simulation Application of operations research techniques in Finance