Bachelor of Sciences, Mathematics, University of Sri Lanka (1977)
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Dundee, Scotland (1982)
Professional Experience
Research Fellow, University of Dundee (1982-84)
Research Fellow, Oxford University (1984-86)
Lecturer, University of Surrey (1986-89)
Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Washington State University (1989-92)
Associate Professor, Mathematics, Washington State University (1992-95)
Associate Chair, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University (1993-96)
AFOSR visiting Professor, Armstrong Laboratory, Tyndall AFB (1994-95)
Professor, Mathematics, Washington State University (1995- )
Chair, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University (1996-1999) and (2006-2008)
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (1999-2011)
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (2012-2017)
Instruction and Seminar Topics
Contaminant transport with nonlinear sorption; Spatial structures for tissue interactions; Solitons and blow-up solutions of long wave equations; Two-step iterative method for advection-diffusion computations.
Specialties and Research Areas
Mathematical and computer modeling of nonlinear phenomena that arise in engineering and life sciences. Problems of particular interest are: Contaminant transport in ground water; Transdermal drug delivery; Models in developmental biology; Nonlinear waves – Solitons; Iterative methods with large convergence regions.
