Professor Shelton Peiris - FRSS, FIASSL
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Honorary
Professor of Statistics – From 2024
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World
Class Professor (WCP) – From August 2020.
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ISI (International Statistics Institute)
Elected Member.
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Distinguished Honorary
Professor/Senior Research Fellow.
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Prestigious Honorary Fellow of the
Institute of Applied Statistics, Sri Lanka (FIASSL) (Received on 28 December
2017). Professor Peiris becomes the first Sri Lankan born statistics
academic/researcher working overseas to receive this illustrious award. The
first Fellowship of the IASSL was offered in 2011 to world renowned
statistician, Distinguished Professor Calyampudi
Radhakrishna Rao (C.R.Rao).
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FRSS (Fellow of the Royal
Statistical Society)
Visiting Appointments (Short-term/Long-term)
As an academic staff member
in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney, Shelton has been
invited and offered a number of Senior Level academic positions at leading,
prestigious universities overseas, including:
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Visiting
Professor of Statistics, University of California, Davis – Fall 2024
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Professor
of Economics (2022) – University of Roma, Tor Vergata,
Italy, September 2022.
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World
Class Professor (WCP) – University of Gadjah Mada,
Indonesia – From Aug 2020
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Professor of Statistics (2019),
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.
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Professor of Statistics (2018),
Plekhanov University, Moscow, Russia.
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Professor of Statistics (2018),
University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece.
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Professor of Economics (2015), Soka
University, Tokyo, Japan.
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Professor of Statistics (2015),
Higher School of Economics (HSE), Moscow, Russia.
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Professor of Statistics (2013/2014),
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Professor of Statistics (2007), University
of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Professor of Statistics (2002),
Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Professor of Statistics (1998), Thaksin
University, Thailand.
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Professor of Statistics (1997),
University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
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Professor of Statistics (1997),
University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada.
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Professor of Statistics (1993),
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
However, he opted to
continue with his contributions to:
· help and advice the students in Australia (especially
at HSC and at University First Year) to develop study skills and to adjust for
a new study environment.
· help students to develop all aspects of the academic life,
their analytical thinking power and skills to achieve maximum benefit during
the time at the university.
· develop textbooks to support active learning of
students. Further, write articles related to teaching and learning mathematics
and take roles in such editorial boards (see below: under Editorial work)
to promote the profession.
The above three give a
great professional satisfaction to any genuine academic. In addition, he
continues to:
· develop the Peace and Harmony within and between
communities in Australia by taking various non-political, voluntary leadership
roles in the society (see below: under Other Community Services). This
helps to promote the theme of Multiculturalism in Australia.
· develop and exchange educational programs, links and
research projects with universities in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Japan and India.
· publish various non-mathematical articles, short
stories, poems and songs (see below: under Hobbies) to develop the
interest of the Language, Culture and History of various other countries around
the world.
Recent professional recognition (worldwide)
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Elected member - ISI.
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World Class Professor (WCP) – From Aug 2020.
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FRSS (Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society).
Recent professional contributions (worldwide)
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Keynote Address at WCP Workshop on Statistical Analysis of
Time Series.
Details: https://math.fmipa.ugm.ac.id/id/world-class-professor-2020-workshop-series/
Date: Thursday 5/11/2020
Time: 12:30 - 16:30
(Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT))
Registration: FREE - Required
Link: https://bit.ly/2T90Dt1
Press Release: https://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/shelton/Press
Release WCP 2020.pdf
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Plenary Speaker - The 8th SEAMS-UGM 2019
Conference, Indonesia (29 July – 01 Aug).
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Keynote Speaker of ICEFS: International Conference
on Economics, Finance and Statistics, Jan. 14-15 2017, Hong Kong
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Plenary Speaker of IASSL International Statistics Conference
2017: International
Statistics Conference, 2017 December 28-29, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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President: International Engineering and
Technology Institute, Sydney-New South Wales Branch, Australia
He is a member of FIRN.
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Professor
Shelton Peiris |
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Room
819, Carslaw Building |
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Telephone: |
+61
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Department Fax: |
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Current
Responsibilities/Services: |
· Sub Dean - Faculty of
Science. · Coordinator -
Interdisciplinary Teaching with the School of IT for MIT/MDS degrees. · Associate Editor (see
below: Editorial Work). · Justice of the Peace (NSW)
(see below: Other Community Services). Download forms: · New South Wales Statutory Declaration
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Research Interests
Statistical analysis of stationary and non-stationary
time series data, theory and applications of estimating functions, financial
time series modelling, saddle point and Edgeworth type approximations related
to time series problems.
I am a member of the Statistics group.
Excellence in Teaching Award in 2012
Prof Peiris has been awarded the Faculty of Science
Citation for Excellence in Teaching in 2012 on Tuesday, 15 May. This is awarded
to academic teaching staff to recognize contributions to high quality teaching
and enhancing the student learning environment.
Research in Teaching
It is known that many higher education institutions do
not recognize and/or ignore the importance of "good teaching". This
is especially visible in the area of mathematical sciences. This reaction to
"good teaching" and encourage "bad teaching" (if not worse
or worst teaching) have created a great discomfort for many students. Now we
are witnessing the negative results of this in many ways. Examples:
· Poor mathematical skills of some university students.
· Hyperbolic (if not exponential) decay of continuing
student numbers.
· School children with least interests of mathematics.
What is good teaching?
Good teaching is a complex
process that begins and ends with students. It takes into account who they are,
what they already know, what interests they may already have, and what they
will need to know. But subject expertise alone does not a good teacher make.
The difference between subject expertise and the kind of explanatory expertise
that results in good teaching is real important. In sense, the real difference
between being an expert in something and being an expert who teaches is showing
students how you got-and how they can get-the rabbit out of the hat should be
identified.
Q: How can one identify
satisfactory teaching, Superior teaching and outstanding teaching?
Unless the
authorities/superiors find ways to identify these levels of teaching using
reasonable measures, the situation will continue to fall and the
standards’ of mathematics and statistics education will deteriorate at
hyperbolic or exponential rate! If this trend continues, in 10-15 years, we may
need a very small number the staff to teach mathematics/statistics as there
will be very few students interested of doing mathematics.
Some suggestions are:
· set practical guidelines and measures to identify
'good teachers'.
· reward and promote 'good teachers' and 'outstanding
teachers'.
General Information
Shelton Peiris did his PhD at Monash University,
Melbourne, Victoria. After graduation from Monash in 1987, he lectured at the
University of Moratuwa and the University of Melbourne before joining what was
then the Department of Statistics in 1990. He has been here ever since except
for visiting appointments at the University of Waterloo (1993), the University
of Manitoba (1997), the University of Iowa (1997), Thaksin University (1998),
Pennsylvania State University (2002) and the University of Malaya (2007).
His recent publications
include joint authorship with leading researchers including * C.R.Rao, * Bovas
Abraham, * Vo Anh, * David Allen, * Michael McAleer, *
A.Thava, * J.Robinson,
* Neville Weber, * Tommaso Proietti, * Richard Gerlach,
and * S.Yadavalli.
Major Journals with papers
* Journal of Econometrics, * Journal of Time
Series Analysis, * Journal of Multivariate Analysis, * Stochastic
Processes and Applications, * Computational Statistics and Data
Analysis, * Metrika, * The
Australian Journal of Statistics, * Biometrical Journal, * Expert
Systems with Applications, * North American Journal of Economics and
Finance, * Economics Letters, * Statistics and Probability
Letters and * The Australian Journal of Management.
More Information
Currently, his main research interests are in
developing methods for modelling financial time series data and resampling,
saddle point and Edgeworth type approximations related to time series problems.
A long term interest in the teaching of statistics/mathematics has also
developed into a research interest with particular emphasis on the role of
technology in education and learning in statistics.
Allan, McAleer, Peiris
and Chan won an ARC Linkage grant of A$295000 (for 2004-2007) for the project
"Modelling stock market liquidity in Australia and the Asia Pacific
Region".
Recently, Gerlarch and Peiris have received an ARC bridging grant
from the University Sydney for the project "ACD Modelling and
Applications".
Recently, a group
consisting of KHNg, Peiris, KHNg,
Nor Aishah Hamzah, Pooi Ah Hin and Wu Swee Leng have
received research funds from the University of Malaya and from the Government og Malaysia projects on "Stochastic modelling and
Applications in Finance" and "Statistical Quality Control".
He was a council member and
treasurer of the SSAI (Statistical Society of Australia Inc.) NSW branch
(2003-2006). He has organized a number of workshops and invited paper sessions
in Australia and overseas. He is an elected member of ISI.
He was the Director of
Statistics Teaching Program until 2015.
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Additional Information
Creative work:
· Book Launch: New Sinhala Short Story Book Published
in 2017
Cover Page (New Sinhala
Short Story Book Published in 2017): click
here (non-academic: Society, Culture and Reconciliation)
Back Page: click here (non-academic: Society, Culture and
Reconciliation)
· Song 1click here (non-academic:
Society, Culture and Reconciliation)
· Song 2 click here
(non-academic: Society, Culture and Reconciliation)
· Book click here
(non-academic: Society, Culture and Reconciliation)
· Book click here
(Academic: Teaching)
· Significant Papers: click
here (Research)
· Selected Invited Presentations: click here (Research)
· Teaching/Other Evalauations:
click here (Teaching/Other)
click here (Teaching)
Editorial Work
· AMS Math Reviewer Mathematical Reviews (AMS Instructions for Mathematical
Reviews)
· Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of Advances in Decision
Sciences
· Associate Editor of Journal of
Statistical Computation and Simulation
· Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of Pakistan Journal of Statistics and
Operation Research (PJSOR)
· Editorial Board Member of InterStat
· Associate Editor of Journal of Statistics
· Editorial Board Member of Journal of Mathematics and
Statistics
· Editorial Advisory Board Member Sri Lankan
Journal of Applied Statistics
Professional Contributions
In public:
· Writers Guild of NSW - Welcome speech (Sunday 5th
June 2016).
· HSC High Achievers Prize Giving - Sri Lanka
Association of NSW (2014).
· HSC High Achievers Prize Giving - Sri Lanka
Association of NSW (2007).
In profession:
· Chairperson - International program International
Statistics coference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 28-30
Dec., 2011
· Councilor/Treasurer of Statistical
Society of Australia Inc. (SSAI) NSW (2003-2006)
· Statistical Society of Australia Inc. [SSAI(NSW)} ACTIVITIES
· International
Statistics coference in SRILANKA, 28-30 Dec., 2004
· Sydney Summer
Statistics Workshop, Feb 27, 2004 - Joint Sponsors :
USYD, UNSW, MACQU
Other Information
· Teaching
Comments from Students on Teaching
· Seminars
Personal Information/Hobbies
· My Family (A Photo in 1996)
· Sports: Tennis, Cricket, Jogging, Walking
· Music: Classical (worldwide)
· Writing: Poems and Stories (in Sinhalese):
The following articles have been published in
Books/Magazines/Newspapers:
Short Stories (in Sinhala)
Note: The Sinhala is a community magazine (in Sinhala)
publish by The Sinhalese Cultural Forum (The SCF) of NSW to encourage local
writers.
A short story: A Past Spring (The
Sinhala, Dec 2015, pp28-29; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
A short story: A Memory of
Christmas (The Sinhala, Dec 2014, pp22-23; ISSN: 1834 7061, National
Library of Australia)
A short story: Hantanen Esala Sandak (The Sinhala, Aug 2014, pp27-29;
ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
A short story: Charlis Mama (The
Sinhala, Aug 2013, pp8-9; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
A short story: Mother's Love (The
Sinhala, Aug 2010, pp11-14; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
A short story: Antho
Jata II (Tangled Mind - Part two) (Pahana Community Magazine, Oct/Nov 2009 - Issue 78, p26-27)
A short story: Antho
Jata I (Tangled Mind - part one) (Pahana Community Magazine, September 2009 - Issue 77, p24)
A short story: The Moon is Shining Again (The
Sinhala, Aug 2009, pp16-18; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
A short story: Destiny (The
Sinhala, Oct 2008, pp21-23; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
A short story: Another Spring (The
Sinhala, Aug 2008, pp22-24; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
A short story: Scholarship to Sydney
(Thisara Tharana (2008), 89-98, ISBN 978-955-600-6, Dayawansa
Jayakody & Co, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Kavi (in Sinhala)
· Amme - Mother (ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library
of Australia). The Sinhala, Non 2017.
·
Hope (ISSN: 1834 7061, National
Library of Australia). The Sinhala, January 2010.
· Invitation to Lankaramaya: Vesak Kavi: Ran Wata Piduma
(Erection of the Golden Fence for Bodhi Tree at Lankaramaya)
(Appeared in Lankaramaya News Letter, Vesak
(May) Issue 2010)
· Poson Bakthi: Poson Kavi
(Appeared in Lankaramaya Electronic News Letter, Poson (June) Issue 2010)
· Poem: A request from a mother to her
son living overseas (web publication)
· Poem: A request from a mother to
her son living overseas (The Sinhala, November 2011, pp; ISSN: 1834 7061,
National Library of Australia)
· New Dharmasalawa: Aradhana (Appeared in Lankaramaya
News Letter, March (Medin) 2012 Issue)
· Poem: Nangi (Sister) (The
Sinhala, September 2012, p 33; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
· Poem: Mata Aaasai.....(I wish to go...) (The
Sinhala, December 2012, p 34; ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
· Poem: 1973 Peradeniya (Life)
Memories (The Sinhala, December 2013, p 40; ISSN: 1834 7061, National
Library of Australia)
· Poem: 2014 Awrudu
(The SCF, Bakmaha Ranga Publication, April 2014)
Other Reviews
A Review: Family Night (ISSN:
1834 7061, National Library of Australia)
Writers Guild of the SCF of NSW: Writers
Guild (ISSN: 1834 7061, National Library of Australia). The Sinhala,
January 2010.
Web Publications
A short story: Tangled Mind
(web publication)